text: Italy Uncovered hair was acceptable for women in the Italian states.  Many women twisted their long hair with cords or ribbons and wrapped the twists around their heads, often without any cap or veil.  Hair was also worn braided.  Older women and widows wore a veil and wimple, and a simple knotted kerchief was worn while working. In the image at right, one woman wears a red hood draped over her twisted and bound hair.
  Style gallery
  Italian gowns are high-waisted. Women's hair was often worn uncovered or minimally uncovered in Italy. Detail of a fresco by Giotto, Padua, 1304–06.
  Woman presenting a chaplet wears a linen barbet and fillet headdress. She also wears a fur-lined mantle or cloak, c. 1305–1340.
  Women at dinner wear their hair confined in braids or cauls over each ear, and wear sheer veils.  The woman on the left wears a sideless surcoat over her kirtle, and the woman on the right wears an overgown with fur-lined hanging sleeves or tippets. From the Luttrell Psalter, England, c. 1325–35.
  Woman in a garden on a breezy day.  Her kirtle sleeves button from the elbow to the wrist, and she wears a sheer veil confined by a fillet or circlet. Her skirt has a long train. From the Luttrell Psalter, England.
  Woman wearing a red hood on her head and a gown with vair-lined hanging sleeves or tippets. Illustration from the French Romance of Alexander, 1338–44.
  Italian fashion of this period features broad bands of embroidered or woven trim on the dress and around the sleeves. Siena, c. 1340.