
Costume Ideas
Costumes are Mandatory
MEDIEVAL COSTUME IDEAS
Peasant
- Long, solid t-shirt, and sweat
pants/jeans (old, baggy, and plain)
- Binding from ankles to knees (use
cloth, rope, or masking tape)
- Rope around the waist for a belt
- Simple dress
Clergy (monks,nuns, bishops, pope, cardinal, priests, etc.)
- Long robe with hood (usually dark in
color- brown/black)
- Rope belt
- Cross, staff, bible or rosary
Nobleman
- Long robe or cape
- Jewelry (fake) to show wealth
Noblewomen
- Long, floor-length dress with arms and
shoulders covered
- Cone Hat, shawl,cloak, or scarf
- Jewelry (fake)
Viking
- Metal helmet with animal figures
- Shirt of iron rings and covered with cloth (ideas: Soda tabs or something similar)
- Broad Belt, Trousers
- Long Hair and beard
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Other Costume Ideas
- Gypsy
- Crusader
- Jester
- Knight
- Dragon
- Wizard (like Merlin, not Harry Potter)
- Page
- Minstrel
- Plague Victim
- Plague Doctor
- Castle
- Troubadour
Note:
- No real weapons!
- No 2-person costumes
Medieval Colors/Clothing
http://www.costumes.org/history/100pages/medievalinks.htm#Women%27s%20Dress
http://www.learner.org/interactives/middleages/clothing.html
http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/medieval/clothing/