The Armour Archive

Unfortunately, I've noticed that 14th and 15th centuries (like most of them) are very large places (spanning close to 100 years! ) and as such, when looking for clothes for 1415, I find I can't find much beyond the century.

I'd be happy with clothes dated from 1390 to 1415. In all honesty, after about 1414 the clothes would be whatever they brought over from England, but I'm already shoving myself into a small cubbyhole.

I appreciate any help. I have some documentation for armor in the period, but nothing for casual wear.

Thanks!

Just looking for sources, or actual garments? You can learn a lot from the illustrations of the Pilgrims in the Ellesmere Chaucer (c. 1410) -- like the names for various garments -- but you might also find memorial effigies & brasses to be an interesting source for styles of formal (if possibly imaginary or idealized) garments:
Adam Mallet, c.1390
Margarete Brocas, c. 1390
Margaret, Baroness Willoughby d'Eresby (d.1391)
Lora, Lady de Saint Quintin c.1393
Eleanor Bohun, Duchess of Gloucester (d.1399)
Lora, Lady Marmion c.1400
Wool merchant & wife c.1400
William Grevel, 1401
The sons of Reginald Baybrook, c. 1401
John Gower (d.1402)
Edmund, Duke of York (d.1402)
Margaret Whatton, Lady Bagot c.1407
Sir William Bagot, 1407
Lucy Lestrange, Lady Willoughby d'Eresby c.1409
Margery Greenham, Lady Burton c.1410
Lady Wilcotes c.1410
Lady Claricia de Frevile, 1410
Philippa Byschoppesdon (d.1414)
The family of Thomas Stokes, c.1416

I was just looking for sources. Actual garments would be fairly old, and probably rare.

I appreciate all the sources. I agree that the effigies are probably very formal, but they're very useful (and there are a few armors I haven't seen there, too).

The Ellesmere Chaucer, on the other hand, is absolutely perfect and what I was looking for. I may have to bounce some more ideas around on the board once I start trying to interpret them.

Thanks!