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During the medieval period, people invested heavily in looking good. The finest fashions demanded careful chemistry and compounds imported from great distances and at considerable risk to merchants, the Church became a major consumer of both the richest and humblest varieties of cloth, shoes, and adornment, and vernacular poets began to embroider their stories with hundreds of verses describing a plethora of dress styles, fabrics, and shopping...

During the medieval period, people invested heavily in looking good. The finest fashions demanded careful chemistry and compounds imported from great distances and at considerable risk to merchants, the Church became a major consumer of both the richest and humblest varieties of cloth, shoes, and adornment, and vernacular poets began to embroider their stories with hundreds of verses describing a plethora of dress styles, fabrics, and shopping...

Twelfth- and thirteenth-century medieval French texts reveal the presence of a developed fashion system long before the previously accepted birth of Western fashion in the mid-fourteenth century.