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Bockstensmanen, a medieval person who happened to die in a bog which preserved his clothes (and more), clothes like hella comfy??

Like seriously. Comfy and warm wool clothes!

(yes this are pictures of his actual outfit, not reconstructed clothing. They were very well preserved in all except colour. The bog gave everything that yellow shade, i suspect)

Picture from: https://www.museumhalland.se/bockstensmannen/kladerna/

His kjortel (the clothing for his upper body)

He got a mantel that resemble a poncho

It goes around the entire body! So perhaps not quite a mantel but.

A got a little hood with a fashionedble long thingy at the end

Warm that too! There is no openings for wind or anything, so like. Just pull hood over head, get warm!

Warm socks! Gotta keep em feets warm (and just like in english, the swedish words for trousers, byxor, is in plural in its normal form, just because the medieval version of trousers consisted of two separate peices like here.

Somewhere, there should be something for hos upper legs but idk were that one is)

Anyway! I do think one can tell that keeping warm was an important part of the logic behind bockstensmannens clothing. Not odd that, when he lived in Scandinavia and all… All pictures from

https://www.museumhalland.se/bockstensmannen/kladerna/

When we already at it, with listning his entire outfit. Here his this shoes

Reconstruction in how he might have looked like in life. The musuem points out, that his skull was very smashed when found, werehas it might be a bit so so with this dolls facial similiarity with bockstensmannen in life. And his hair colour we know not, the bog will colour most hair red with enough time.

But that hairstyle! That he really had! Bockstensmannen wore like Peak Fluffy Medieval Hair Fashion in life

The entire doll wearing bockstensmannens reconstructed clothing

Source: https://www.museumhalland.se/bockstensmannen/bockstensmannen-far-ett-ansikte/

https://www.museumhalland.se/utstallning/bockstensmannen/

Holy shit forbidden fashionable bog man

Now add colour, from period illustrations or marginalia, or by checking posts like this one https://the-kazoo-kid.tumblr.com/post/628472745441771520/you-know-what-bothers-me which includes pics of what colours were available for medieval clothing. The post also includes information of what social status went with what colour, and how expensive they were.

That popular fantasy colour black was for wealthy people and some monastic orders; a true colourfast dye hadn’t been invented yet so, to stay properly black rather than fading, clothes had to be regularly taken apart, re-dyed, then sewn back together again. Not something the “lower and middling sort” could afford, either in time or money, and if they could (plot point?) there might be curiosity about how they were managing to do it.

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This selection, shown in a comment on the other post by elfwreck https://tmblr.co/m8_EZSilStDgTSVtCUAmAHA, is from HIstorical Enterprises http://historicenterprises.com/fabrics-colors-c-100_198_200.html, and any number of tailors and costumers who’d be happy to work with any of them (I’m partial to those greys, myself…) [image: image] [image: image] [image: image] [image: image] [image: image] [image: image] [image: image] [image: image] [image: image]

oh! worth mentioning. This outfit seems to be notably lacking in… underwear?

well. he would have been wearing linen underthings. The bog preserves animal fibers well, including human skin and hair. but plant fibers, not so much. He probably had a linen undershirt, and linen something on his upper legs. But those fibers dissolved. At the very least, the linen undershirt.

bog bodies are so fascinating because some things are preserved so well, and others are just… gone. (Your picture was not posted)