Depends on what you mean by tight. More like close fitting. Pattern cut on the bias of the fabric. http://www.greydragon.org/library/underwear3.html http://www.larp.com/midgard/hosen.htm
Though you will find some sort of "pants" prior to the middle ages in Northern Europe but you will find that the hosen (for some reason unknown to me) was popular in that region during the middle ages. -----Original Message----- As I said, I've never paid much attention to the leg wear, I knew only that very tight hosen were worn during the later middle ages. I thought peasants and working people wore something more comfortable, but - now after re-searching in all my pictures- it seems I was wrong... oops, I really have a gap on that topic... I'm interested in 12-14c middle and western Europe, like Anglo-Saxon and around. Not southern Europe like Spain and Italy. _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
