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Sorry, nothing new to tell you. Same clothes, same material and roughly the same weather for Normans from Normandy and those living in England. Owls live all over the world and so some of my species of owl will live in cold countries and some in hot. I guess they have to allow for the different temperatures too. You humans can simply add more clothes or take off some clothes depending on what the weather is like. That’s easy although Richard told me that he once flew from Perth, which is in Australia, to Poznan, which is in Poland. It took about 24 hours. It was in January. He left Perth and the temperature was 42 degrees centigrade. He arrived in Poznan and it was -20 degrees centigrade. He put on his warm jumpers pretty quickly, once he got home as he hadn’t taken them with him. Back in Norman times, women had a long woollen gown or tunic, men had a woollen shirt. Both of them might wear a linen undergarment. When it was cold both sexes would wear some form of headgear. For men it was a type of hood, for women a scarf, both made of wool. All clothes were made at home and therefore all women and girls could spin, weave and sew. Warriors would have a chain mail tunic as shown in the picture. They would carry a dagger, a shield, a mace (a long stick) and a sword.
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