#3 The Dark Ages (or The Early Middle Ages) 400 - 900 a.d.

"So, is everything dark because
 it's the dark ages?..."

So, Rome was sacked in 401 or 410 A.D. by the Visigoths.   The Roman Empire continued to exist because there was a second capital in Bysantium, but for Europeans, (and therefore Western Civilization) the idea of massive centralized government was a thing of the past.  And, just like in 3 Nephi 7, society devolved into tribes.  Cities fell, roads were haunted by robbers and highwaymen, and the basic infrastructure which keeps civilization mostly civil dissapeared.  There were wars and famine and plagues.  Cities were so dangerous, the rich folks moved to rural villas, taking their own private armies, slaves, families, and craftsmen with them.

"We're rich!"

Out of these estates, and the rich folks living in them, the feudal system evolved.   But, it was literally a few hundred years until that happened.  Because of the chaos and illness and bad stuff, there are very few records of the clothing folks wore in Europe at this time.  And by "time" I mean from 400 a.d. to at least 900 a.d.  Most of the clothing, however, was still pretty Roman.  Ya see, the folks up in northern Europe had started wearing those tunics, like the Romans did, but since northern Europe is seriously COLD, they added sleeves. They also wore leggings.  Or, they wore leg bandages, which is exactly what it sounds like, and probably just as miserable.

"Why wear shoes when I'v got
 perfectly good strips of wool to wrap around my feet?

If you will notice, the Frankish gentleman above has on a striped tunic which looks suspiciously Roman, right?  You see, if you identified yourself as a Roman, you kept the same sort of style as a Roman.  Specially since Bysantium (which was next Constantinople and is now Istanbul) was doing stuff like this:

"It's FABULOUS here!"

"And so are we!"

"Word."

The Eastern Roman Empire was still orderly and had scholars of many religions and countries learning lovely things and building lovely things and was, generally speaking, not so bad.  Being Romanish and wearing Roman-inspired clothing continued to be the cool thing, though we added more color and patterns and gold and cool hats and stuff.

But, if you were northern European, Rome was a fashion influence but you could also do your own thing.  These Anglo-Saxons were pretty Roman:

"Yes, we are!"

As are these nice Frankish noble people.

These Vikings throw their own twist on the look:

Not a single warrior ever wore a helmet decorated with cow horns.  It's stupid to give someone
a giant hook to grab your head with and is a made-up thing added to drawings of Vikings later in history.

Please look at the Viking man's legs.  This is called cross-gartering and in a time when NOTHING was stretchy, it was the one of the only ways to make your clothing tight and flexable at the same time.  Basically you would just wrap lengths of leather or fabric around your legs to keep your pants tight.   Needles at this point were still made of bone and not super strong so tailoring is still pretty minimal.

Now, let's look at this Swedish lady.  Her husband is pretty boring but she is... wait..  she is rocking a SKIRT AND BLOUSE!

"Trendsetting in the Bronze Age"

This Celtic lady has one on, too!!

Wait!  What is that??!

This is a skirt and blouse in case you forgot what they look like.
 I know, it's been all chitons and tunics lately..

 This is partially the reason why places like Sweden and Norway have national historical clothing which looks like this:

Though it doesn't explain the hats.

 Anyway, as is normal with tribal societies, local trends and technologies tend to determine what folks wear.  Also, just trying to survive determined what you wore since making fabric takes a LONG time.  Generally speaking, though, not a whole lot changed because everyone was trying to figure out how to live by eating rocks and sticks for dinner.   Men did start to wear their skirts longer

Probably cause their pants were terrible

and those glamor queens in Bysantium kept rocking the fashion world.

"Don't bother bringing the heat 'cause it's already been BROUGHT!"

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