Medieval/fantasy flick

based analysis and nice quints

Only some colors were expensive, others like yellow, orange and pink were easily available to the commoner

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dayum

it's a proven fact that everything in the 14th century was made of leather, with metal errant studs haphazardly thrown on belts. and all wheels were a solid sheet of plywood only punctuated by the xbox huge axle.

Damn, can I get a cape for my warband guy?

those guys look like they dancing

the fact is that we simply don't know for sure what the predominant style was for commoners for large swaths of history. they weren't the people producing art, or preserving weapons and armor in their keeps.

gotta really just suck it up and accept that we CANNOT know what the average 12th century peasant looked like. any source from that time is from the landed aristocracy or monks

The LOTR movies influenced and simultaneously ruined costume design in middle ages fantasy that lasts to this day.

>Flick about the 1950's
>It's set in suburbia

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I don't think so you cunt, just look at anything from the 90s and before, robinhood prince of thieves? you're a daft mouthy spud

thinking that peasants cared about fashion beyond the practical is silly m8.
we live in a unique time when everyone can concern themselves with that stuff. for most of history only the people at the top could.

Yeah it's ironic the whole "war = a dark wardrobe" idea became popular due to camouflage being associated with the military during WW1. Because we associate the medieval setting with medieval warfare we therefore assume they were all wearing dark colors. In reality though dark colored military uniforms only became popular in WW1 because wearing anything got you killed en masse as the French found out. In the medieval era up to WW1 soldiers wore flashy colored clothing

Just purple which is why it was the mark of royalty.

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peasants had a whole season of doing next to nothing.

so they spent that time making dyes?
i don't doubt that it was *more* colorful than we often portray it, but this idea that it was in any way, shape, or form comparable to the vibrancy of modern dyes is ridiculous. yes, peasants probably wore faded yellow pants covered in stains. but that's about it.

>thinking that peasants cared about fashion beyond the practical is silly m8.
Everyone likes to look nice, obviously you're not going to till your fields in your Sunday best but you don't want to look like a goober in front of your entire community.

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Game of Thrones cemented that in the public consciousness forever.

This

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artists weren't peasantry, nor did they strive for realism. that pic related is what a cardinal envisioned when he passed a worker in the orchard

all that said, we really need to stop pretending like the middle ages was just one distinct period, and understand that each nation during that time had its own fashion that changed over hundreds of years just as today's fashion changes. just as the victorian era was drab, there were likely periods of drab fashion in the middle ages that correspond to the current stereotype, and there were ages that likely had more color.

only the northerners dressed colorlessly though

EH, on a workday in the city it's in the vast majority a sea of white, black and grey.

>so they spent that time making dyes?
Why not? You could use it to dye your own clothes, sell it for a bit of cash, or trade it for something you need more. A quarter of your year is going to be downtime and the women in your community are going to be spending most of that making clothes, so there's plenty of stuff that needs dyeing

true. even women usually keep work attire to a subdued tones

only black, brown and grey
leather only
overly long belts without buckles
no headgear ever
no decorations whatsoever

He is red, you colorblind retard.

i just think you're projecting a modern perspective where supply chains provide access to anything you need onto illiterate feudal peasants, man. i don't disagree that they probably cared more about what they looked like than we give them credit for, but i think you're embellishing the degree to which they could actually make changes.

i wouldn't be surprised if they used things around them more, like flowers and leaves

>that pic related is what a cardinal envisioned when he passed a worker in the orchard
Monks would either be working their own fields or if their community was especially well-off they would have workers to help them with it. They'd know what a fieldhand looked like, they'd either be one themselves or they'd see them everyday.

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