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For the next 600 years clothing hardly changed at all. Think about that. Do you fancy walking round in clothes from 1407AD? In our modern world fashion changes so quickly, partly because the firms who make the clothes we wear (well you wear, I moult occasionally but I don't buy my feathers, I grow my own), want you to spend money and buy new ones. From what I know, these firms may not like Richard too much. The clothes that the Angles, Saxons and Jutes wore were made of wool, from sheep, or linen, made from the flax plant. Everyone, men and women, wore loose fitting tunics, sometimes gathered at the waist. For women these tunics would be ankle length; for men they would be shorter and worn over baggy leggings or trousers. Men had belts in which they would keep knives, keys etc. The word Saxon was used as these men were known as men of the seax and seax is their word for a knife. In cold weather people would wear a cloak, fastened by a brooch. Many people had leather shoes, attached to the foot with straps and made from the skin of animals, usually cattle. In villages and tribes the clothes would be made by the womenfolk.
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