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This hood is characteristic of the 15th century for women. It is worn open, and can be pinned on the dress to help with the maintenance.
It has a long cornette which can be used as a scarf against the cold and tied around the head (see photo of green hood).
It is often worn with the edge of the visor folded down around the head. In the many illuminations depicting it, the lining (if there is one) is the same colour as the wool.

Possible options:
- without lining (hand-sewn)
- with linen, wool or silk lining
- visible hand seams

Sources:
- PML MS M.396, fol. 119r Guillaume de Machaut, Poésies, France, c. 1425-30
- Boccaccio, The Decameron, Flanders, 1432 Paris, BnF, Arsenal, manuscript 5070 fol. 304

Price from 42€ (wool lined with linen)

The shirt is part of the underwear. It was worn throughout the Middle Ages.
It can be made of linen, hemp, nettle or futaine.
Its size and fineness of the fabric can vary according to the status of its wearer.
The sleeves and collars are adapted to the fashion of the clothes worn over them. The collar can be split for nursing mothers.

Sources:
French Old Testament, f.42v, ca. 1250
The Very Rich Hours of the Duke of Berry

Possible options:
- Exposed handmade seams
- Round neck, V-neck, or with amigaut
- Material : linen (bleached or natural), hemp

Price from 85€

Sleeveless shirt 2nd half 14th and 15th century.
Simple interpretation based on available sources.
There is a shirt top dated to the end of the 15th century which has been found and preserved.
It is quite complex and plays a real supporting role for the chest, but one can assume that there are simpler models when one looks at the whole set of representations.
The shirt is fitted with a linen belt that can be adjusted with a needle.There is a natural pleating formed by the bending.

Sources:
-Codices vindobonenses 2759-2764 - Austrian National Library - Vienna
- Codex of Jenský Czech Rep. IV.B.24, f. 78v - 1490-1510
- Castle Ranis, Thuringen (Germany) - Folder dated 14th century found, photographed and then lost.

Possible options :
- Exposed handmade seams
- Round collar, V-neck or with amigaut
- Material: linen (bleached or natural), hemp
- Thinner straps
- Embroidery on straps

Price : From 66€

This headdress was present as early as the 13th century and was supposedly still worn during the 15th century. It is the equivalent of the male simple linen coiff for women.
A headdress was found during the discovery of a relic attributed to St. Brigid, hence the name commonly used nowadays.
It is dated to the end of the 13th century.
The found headdress is decorated with several embroideries including an interlaced herringbone stitch.
It can be worn on its own or used as the basis for a veil or hood.

Possible options:
- With or without embroidery
- Visible handmade seams

Price from 25€

Linen knotted coiff worn during the 15th century.
Numerous representations in illuminations for all types of status.

Sources:
- Boccaccio, Des cleres et nobles femmes (15th century)
- Ovid, Héroïdes, translation by Octavien de Saint-Gelais (15th century)

Price: €25

Removable sleeves which are pinned onto the 15th century short-sleeved "corset" dress.

Source:
- The Descent from the Cross, Rogier van der Weyden, 1435
- The Birth of Mary, Alte Pinakothek, Munich, 1470

Possible options:
- Different materials: brocade, silk, velvet
- Visible handmade seams
- Buttoning / lacing possible on the forearm

Price: from €33

The burgundian gown is emblematic of the 2nd part of the 15th century. We call it also "Tassel" gown in french.
It is mostly worn by the nobles but the bourgeois imitates it.
It is worn over the shirt and the corset dress.
The "tassel" (most often black) is the piece of fabric in the V-shaped indentation of the dress.
It is pinned to the chest of the corset dress.
There are several possible collar shapes, the nobles will have fur at the cuffs and collar (sometimes at the bottom of the dress in the case of a full fur lining).
Some late images show brocade fabrics instead of fur.
The bourgeois will probably imitate this by replacing the fur with contrasting fabric.

Possible options:
- Outer fabric material: wool, brocade
- Material of lining: silk (ideal noble status), linen/fine cotton
- Type of fur: fake or real
- Visible handmade seams
- Length of the train

Price from 490€

This dress is called "corset" because it supports the chest.
It is worn directly over the shirt, adjusted by lacing which can be opened over the shirt.It can be long-sleeved (adjusted by a discreet buttoning or lacing) or short-sleeved.
In the latter case it can be completed by removable sleeves to be pinned.
It can be worn by all social classes, the richer you are the more saturated colours and greater width you have.

Sources:
- The Descent from the Cross, Rogier van der Weyden, 1435
- Madonna con infante, ca. 1450 (Antwerp, Koninklijk Museum)
- The Very Rich Hours of the Duke of Berry

Possible options :
- with or without lining
- long sleeves
- variation of the width
- visible handmade seams

Price: from 280€

The henin or truncated henin that could only be worn by the nobility in the 15th century.
It can be truncated or not, in a plain colour or with a pattern. Most often it is decorated with a rather transparent white veil.

Source :
- Moreel triptych (Hans Memling)
- Portrait of a young woman, circa 1460, Rogier van der Weyden

Price from 110€ (without veil).

Women's hoses used in the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries (note that they are certainly earlier than the 13th century).
They are mainly made of wool and cut on the bias.
They are held in place by garters attached below the knee.

Possible options :
- visible handmade seams

Price from 55€

Simple linen apron.
It is fastened at the waist with a long strap.
Can be seen in the sources on men (very often bakers) and women.
One size fits all.

Possible options :
- visible handmade seams
- strap of varying length
- white or beige linen

Price: 45 €