text: Older man (chiding an indiscreet young woman, see image below) wears a long, loose houppelande.  The fashionable young men wear short tunics, one with dagged edges.  The man on the right wears shoes with long pointed toes, late 14th century. From the Tacuinum Sanitatis.
  Women's clothing
  Underwear
  The innermost layer of a woman's clothing was a linen or woolen chemise or smock, some fitting the figure and some loosely garmented, although there is some mention of a "breast girdle" or "breast band" which may have been the precursor of a modern bra. Women also wore hose or stockings, although women's hose generally only reached to the knee.
  All classes and both sexes are usually shown sleeping naked—special nightwear only became common in the 16th century—yet some married women wore their chemises to bed as a form of modesty and piety. Many in the lower classes wore their undergarments to bed because of the cold weather at night time and since their beds usually consisted of a straw mattress and a few sheets, the undergarment would act as another layer.
  Gowns and outerwear
  Over the chemise, women wore a loose or fitted gown called a cotte or kirtle, usually ankle or floor-length, and with trains for formal occasions.  Fitted kirtles had wide skirts made by adding triangular gores to widen the hem without adding bulk at the waist.  Kirtles also had long, fitted sleeves that sometimes reached down to cover the knuckles.