Medieval hoods: A funny thing about medieval hoods and an amazing discovery!
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- čas přidán 6. 03. 2019
- A look at medieval hoods, how they're used, how they're worn and something you probably didn't know about them that will make you think about medieval people differently. #hood #medieval #funny
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I'll never stop being salty about the fact that hoods and cloaks are no longer socially acceptable attire.
True
fashion is stupid, wear the hood and cloak proudly!
Go bring them back into style! :D
Huh? Agree on cloaks (no pockets) but once the snow or wind starts, hoods go up here in the Midwest.
I love my cloaks! Especially the hooded ones.
The more I watch this channel the more I realize that all the medieval folks just did all the same stuff we'd be doing if we only had what they had to work with. Humans have always been the same.
LITERALLY!
Arguably, they do it more efficiently in some cases, especially regarding clothing.
@@SyndicateOperative definitely, it's because having less, they need to be more creative but also efficient with resources
Medival times weren't so long ago, fundamentally we are the same species as they were, a few hundred years of evolution is literally nothing... but no, humans have not always been the same if you go further.
Humans at their core are problem solvers, and it makes sense that even closer to a millenia apart, we found find similar solutions to similar problems and situations.
I spent 3 weeks as part of an archaeological project in Egypt's western desert. We westerners wore hats, short-sleeved shirts (when it wasnt windy) and often shorts in the heat, then our jackets and long pants and even sweaters at night. The Egyptians often wore the same robes with loose turbans day and night. The loose robes kept cool air around their bodies in the day time and warmth at night. The turbans were protection against sun and heat in daytime and provided warmth at night.
Always dress local.
The keffiyeh is a large but very thin scarf. Worn loosely it doesn't trap much heat but bunched up it's quite warm. I love them
Did you adopt their clothing then?
@@senchaholicTIGHTY-WHITIES?
I question the “loose robes kept cool air around the body”. Uncirculated air heats up by body heat. This is the general idea of ‘layering’ - to provide an insulated space where uncirculated air can heat up, without great loss.
The air isn’t ‘cool’ during the day in Egypt - it’s hot. One cannot keep cool air around the body in a hot environment. But, the air is also dry.
A better explanation is that loose robes provide the ability for air to circulate with body movement, allowing the sweat to evaporate without encumbering that circulation with clothes. The more natural use of the body’s heat regulation system is for the skin to be protected from direct heat of the sun, while allowing for sweat to evaporate, cooling the body. This is the basic thermoregulation that one gets by moving into shade rather than standing in the sun - it ‘feels’ cooler because your body can more effectively disperse heat without also heating the skin up at the same time.
This would also explain why the same loose robes are worn at night - without movement, the air isn’t circulated, thus providing the shutoff of circulation that was depended upon during the heat of the day.
Year 2450: “And so that’s how our shoulder shields actually trace back to 21st century kids wearing their baseball caps backwards.”
The backwards baseball cap is really just a throwback to the Roman galea.
The backwards baseball cap is less likely to get blown off by the wind.
@@smeejit unrelenting pragmatism lmfao
@@smeejit And also less likely to perform its design function...
Some drunk idiot: *wears his hood the wrong way round*
Nobles: Yeah, this is high fashion now
Rusczi Kaszëba that’s probably accurate. That’s pretty much exactly how Paniers (the big wide French skirts) came into fashion. Women delivering bread wore baskets on their hips to carry the loafs in, and then would often place their top skirt over the baskets to protect the merchandise from the incredibly dirty streets. Nobility saw the look and said “hey, her waist looks REALLY tiny when she’s wearing that basket contraption, I want one!” Thus the big metal cages under their skirts were born. Fashion often is the result of mimicking something actually useful and then essentially copying it so many time that it becomes useless and purely decorative.
Like pockets on most women’s jeans 🙄
I think you could reasonably say that about all fashion.
The drunk idiot was probably the king. . .
Forget about wearing sweatshirts normally- wear them around your waist
Sadly, wearing our pants backwards never cought on. RIP 1990s.
Let us thank the youtube algorithm for recomending us something interesting for once.
Right? I've got Amazon open in a separate tab looking for that style of hood for when I'm walking home at night and it's cold.
_"Let us thank the youtube algorithm for recomending us something interesting for once."_
*Even a broken clock is right twice a day.*
Actually, my youtube often recommends interesting but random and weird things to me. Just tell it you aren't interested in this or that kind of videos and it'll eventually catch up to what might and might not interest you (usually, clickbaity videos with 😱 HUGE TITLES OMG YOU WON'T BELIEVE THAT!!! 😱 are an automatic toss for me, same with some topics like celebrities and others). It's great to discover new unexpected stuff like how to fix an old rusty deadlocked vise, or how to make a pillow cube out of magnets.
@@nucleargoat6007 you got a link
@@nucleargoat6007 come on man I got to watch that to
I was cycling in camping in the Scottish highlands for three weeks and constantly losing my lighter in the heather. I ended up wearing a belt pack whenever I camped, turned round to the front were I could put things in it easily.
I realised I had re-invented the sporran. Or rather ( in a sense) the heather moorland environment itself invented the sporran.
Are you in Real Men Wear Kilts on FB?
It's quite amazing how practical their clothing was! I cannot believe that there are still people who think that medieval peoples were unintelligent. If you actually look at what they had on them and what they wore, everything had an use. Many things even had several uses.
I think the fanny pack beat you to it
@@ernest3286 "fanny" is considered an inappropriate word in some places, particularly in parts of Britain, as an immature term for "vagina". But you're not wrong. In many places, especially places where "fanny" has that meaning, they are referred to as belt packs among a few other similar terms.
B - cycling IN camping???
Fun fact: The medieval hood and capelet had a lasting impact. Not only did the capelet hang on for centuries (it appears in the Inverness coat, for example), but the hood itself was sometimes used as a precursor to both pockets and backpacks. After all, you've basically got a bag attached to your collar. So, when they didn't need to cover their faces (or did need to carry something extra), the hood could be used as a pocket or backpack. This was especially common in medieval universities, since it made it easier to carry the bulky books and scrolls of the period. Just put it over your shoulder into your hood, and now your hands are free. (Of course, there were also several cases of thieves "pickpocketing" what was carried this way, so you tried to be careful.)
In the old paintings the hoods sometimes had deep-cut zigzags going around the periphery around the shoulders, and that was so that you coud ties these together to make an impromptu sack.
I doubt you'd be carrying bulky items on something that would pull on the front of your neck. Possibly it would have been used for storage but without being worn in the same way.
@@anonanon7497 they would flip the hood around, thus the 'bag' is in front and the weight is on the back of your neck.
That’s so funny because I often do that now lol. When I have a small item I just need to place somewhere I often just toss it into my hood.
Okay algorythm... Surprise me
This makes TWICE in two days that CZcams has put something worthwhile in my recommended! I'm shocked!
Damn, tru
I have only watched only one video about medieval spear fighting and a thought about medieval hoods crossed my mind. Suddenly CZcams suggests me the video exactly on the same topic. I think this is some kind of dark sorcery
@@digitalgreenie was it a half hour video about the advantages of untrained spear vs. trained swordsmen? Because I saw that randomly and it was really good too.
A surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one.
Instead of being angry that medieval is out of style, we all must band together and make it the "In" style again. We as consumers have this power! BRING BACK CLOAKS!
"A Band of Bards Too Far"
Yas! Yas! Yas! *banging pots and pans* BRING BACK CLOAKS!!! BRING BACK CLOAKS!!!
Just do it. I wear ponchos so ppl don't stare at muh cloak. They always think I'm a scary witch or something but with my ponchos I guess I blend in better 😂
@@Sunshine_Daydream222 u silly.
...SILLY SMART!! YASSSS
It can be done, a large community organized through an internet forum that starts wearing cloaks and hoods, when enough people are doing it it will start to become a trend that fashion designer would want to follow.
I think this is why the Hoodie (either with or without the zip front) is so popular today; It's a 19th/20th century soft-jacket combined with a medieval hood. You get the "benefit" (style is supjective) of the clean cut of a jacket, the soft blank-comfort of a cloak and the protective properties of a hood.
I tend to focus on more 18th-19th-20th century fashion for research, but the common thing you see throughout history is that super-functional garments will stick around for ages up until a much better replacement is discovered. You can see this with men's shirts; up until elastic became widely available, the tails of men's shirts were kept long (from the incorporation of "true" pants/trousers and through to the 1900s/ending somewhere around WW1) so they could be tucked between the legs as the underwear layer. But once boxers and briefs became easily available (with their handy elastic waistbands) you see a drop-off in the tuck method and shirts stay the same, except the tails shorten to just tuck in to the belt/pant waistband. And then with women you can see how aprons are tied to periods of history and social class where you don't have many dresses but you need to do rough work. The more washable and replaceable garments became, the less need you had for protecting the front of your dress on a moment by moment basis; eventually only needing an apron for food prep in one room of the house. If you time traveled back a ways and told a woman that no one would wear aprons daily in the 21st century, she would be confused not for cultural reasons but for logistical reasons ("So wait that means people have more then a few dresses? And they can just... wash it or buy another one all in the same day???).
I don't know man, I rarely ever see hoodies here in Europe in last 10-15 years. They were big among the youth is 90s but after that they gradually almost disappeared.
@zerstorer88 if you live around an American military base you see em all the time. A group of young men in hoodies blissfully unaware of how much they stand out.
I see kids in hooded jackets or pullovers daily in Poland, both boys and girls, especially in winter.
@zerstorer88 I'm in the States. My kids practically live in them. My older daughter wears a thin one 6 month of the year at school because the class rooms at her high school range in temp from sub arctic to sub tropical based on distance from boiler and proximity to the center of the building (many rooms have no windows if they are in the middle after many additions to the building). The younger one has four or five pullover hooded sweatshirts emblazoned with either the summer camp logo, the school's cross country team logo, track team, or the wind band logo.
Hoodies are sweaters, not jackets, with hoods.
Most modern winter coats and jackets have hoods though.
This little sneak peak into medieval fashion trends warms my heart in a very strange and unexpected way. A sort of nostalgia birthed from historical fascination rather than personal experience. I think that I would get a similar feeling if a medieval peasant told me their favorite joke or their closest equivalent of a meme.
Kid: *puts on hood the wrong way*
Noble: "You put it on wrong"
Kid: "Oh, you haven't heard?"
More like, kids hanging out joking with their hoods on backwards, adult walks by, knocks it off his head.
Kids: "boomers..."
😂😂
Kid: "Must not get to the cloud district very often."
@@goolash1000 - Boomers back then being the gunpowder generation. "Bang! and your enemies gone!"
Hoody , after over 1000 years back in fashion. Skinny jeans are equivalent to medieval tights. Very retro.
Backwards hat is from the hood bro.😎
...🤯
@@CURRYBOH yep, mind blown 🤯🤩👍
@@CURRYBOH actually people have flipped their caps backwards when working on something that they have to get close to since your grandfather's time. And droopy pants started as easy access to the booty in prison.
Galvin Reid good one... 👏💯
@@CURRYBOH that style is so yesterday. Only worn by wannabees.
Back in the 80's I wore this type of hood many winters in all of the ways that you demonstrated. It was very comfortable and when the hood was down, it was a handy pocket for food.
The first part when you mentioned rolling the edge of your hood back for visibility, the same is true for fur trimmed winter jackets like the N2B. I wore them in the USAF in VERY cold conditions (-30°f and below). Rolled all the way out, the fur is on the inside of the hood. Really helps with freezing winds but your visibility is very limited. Roll back the fur to the outside edge and you have a much wider field of view. Nowadays I live in Northern Michigan and still wear one daily during the winters when the temp falls below 10°f.
Love your videos, new subscriber.
Thanks for the observation and welcome aboard!
Even when rolled back, the fur trim reduces the wind on your face by creating a chaotic verge, disrupting airflow.
@Gillie Monger Half the reason I live in the cold is because I love wearing heavy coats with lots of pockets!
If i remember correctly, N2Bs ware modeled after traditional Inuit parkas. Pretty much only God knows, how many centuries old those traditional parkas design is. US Army just adopted tried and trued design, perfected by generations of people, who lived their whole lives at far north.
I really like my knee length parka. Its cozy and warm, especially with the fake fur around the hood rolled out. The down stuffing is also really great for heat retention. I highly recommended this sort of coat design for cold/snowy weather.
I love how much joy he's expressing while talking about something as simple as a hat. You can tell this guy truly loves what he does.
Yep he's cracked life. Making a living from something you love doing.
I wonder everytime when I she the videos what he is doing for a living - because I want that to!
Andreas Tanghøj Toft he’s the CEO and cofounder of a pretty well known video game company called “Rebellion”. This channel is just for fun, he’s already earned his millions.
He had an epiphany.
it's part of human history that has very little in terms of context or recording. luckily information like these are still within a timeframe that what evidence there is, can still b translated.
I met a guy who regularly wore cloaks, especially in winter; he'd get on public transport with an oblivious IDGAF attitude when he got stared at. Whenever people asked why he was wearing one he just gave them a mildly incredulous smile and replied: 'Because I want to.'
where do you live so that people regularly ask other people why they're wearing what they're wearing?
I can't miss to notice that is has to be an interesting place with nothing better to do with own life.
How dare you wear anything the masses don't wear.
All the reason you need, really.
@@milanstevic8424
Westerners don't have any real problems. So they invent them by being nosey, judgemental busybodies.
I really need to top up my IDGAF reservoir...
Glad to see some of these great earlier videos getting the views they deserve!
This guy is strangely entertainining, even about something normally boring. I have aquired more knowledge thank you sir.
I think all the weird wearable blankets are cloaks slowly making a comeback.
I hope
I bought a couple of cloak pins...
Carbon tax is speeding up staying warm in low tech ways, at least at my house.
Not with man-made global warming rapidly changing the climate. Personally I'm looking at the Berbers (Tamazight) of North Africa as a guide to the proper garb for the changing climate in my area.
With the more volatile and variable weather patterns we'll get as our climate warms and destabilizes, we need all the wearable blankets! Blanket scarves, shawls, wraps, ponchos, cloaks, etc.
And old people were like: Back in 1300, we knew how to wear our hoods properly. Damn kids.
Here a quote from the 14th century:
"Modern fashions seem to keep on growing more and more debased … The ordinary spoken language has also steadily coarsened. People used to say ‘raise the carriage shafts’ or ‘trim the lamp wick,’ but people today say ‘raise it’ or ‘trim it.’ When they should say, ‘Let the men of the palace staff stand forth!’ they say, ‘Torches! Let’s have some light!"
And there is also some old painting floating around, showing something along the lines of:
Tis of old: riding horses, being chivalrous and playing an instrument
Tis of now: drinking beer, smoking pipe and playing cards
Sadly I can't find it.
There is a "kids these days" list in written word dating back to time immemorial. I can't seem to find the full list but it goes back to fucking ancient Sumeria 4000 years ago.
Here is one from 2020 years ago: In Book III of Odes, circa 20 BC, Horace wrote:
Our sires' age was worse than our grandsires'. We, their sons, are more
worthless than they; so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more
corrupt.
🤣🤣🤣
@@BrandanLee I would love to read the whole list
lol.....and they walked both ways to the castle up hill , barefoot, in the snow...LOL
Fascinating to learn that fashion in the medieval period drew from practical usage of clothing and then it was adopted and modified to become a statement of fashion and status.
It makes me think about how heels were originally a practical design used for stirrups but then turned into a high-fashion item where they have remained ever since (most notably in high heeled women's shoes but most men's dress shoes also feature a heel, it's just less pronounced than a stiletto)
You're probably stumbling upon the reason why hoods went out of style. Originally made when needed, adopted in form by richer population, without the function. Richer population moves on to the next best trend. Somewhere in the middle, the poor 'forgot' they did their own hoods, since they gave it to the market version of their own produce.
The looming machines went in disrepair as they were unkept or moved out of the way and forgotten, while more and more refined clothing was coming in from the big cites.
(not 100% if the way things were in industrial era with mass production applies to the same extent in the middle ages (550-1453) - but it is as far as loss of function is concerned)
Its possible that slavic headscarfs used by women even to this day, but also arabic desert scarfs used by men and women hijabs are examples of medieval attire keeping true to function.
As MrJones comments below: "One of the things we moderns get wrong about hoods is their size. We make them huge and drapey and romantic. It’s beautiful-if you can keep it just so on your head, and if there’s no wind."
@@khajiithadwares2263 Tell me a kufiyah isn't one of the most functional pieces of clothing ever, especially for desert and temperate climates.
Quite fascinating indeed! The same type of clothing modification has happened in modern times with the aforementioned backwards baseball cap, the hoodie worn on the waist, and even rolled up pants (a.k.a. “highwaters”) being first a practical alternative way of wearing, and then a fashionable style in their own right.
As fashion seems cyclical, we can only wonder when the hilariously long-toed shoes such as poulaines, or the “Botas picudas mexicanas” (a.k.a. Mexican pointy boots) will come back in style in a new and hilarious way.
@@DJPhasikIt wasn't that many years ago that men's shoes had absurdly long, pointed "toes" beyond where their toes actually ended inside the shoes. Late 1990s was it? Early 2000s?
@@FigaroHey Haha, yes! It's true some dress shoes (especially unique fashion statement types) did begin to approach the absurdly long threshold. Yet it seems that the poulaines and Mexican pointy boots still claim the title as the most absurdly long-toed shoes.
Honestly I kinda love ancient clothes in some ways just because of how versatile everything is. Makes me wanna get some blanket pins and wear my wool blanket in the winter (and in fact I've found that a belt is a great way to wear a blanket without putting holes in the blanket).
But there's just something nice about being able to use one thing in many different applications, rather than having things that are made for a single application and don't really apply to any other applications.
😂 The hood worn backwards though! Will never watch a medieval movie the same way again... “Oh that dude is wearing his hood backwards, he think he’s cool”...
Medieval douchebros...
Lmao
He is a Midevil renactor you judgmentalasswipes
@@billytoll6675 We're not talking about the guy in the video, we're talking about whatever historical guy invented the backwards hood look.
absolute madlad
living history is what histroy channel should do a bit of instead of all the trucking and pawning. Im so glad to find you doing this here on youtube
What does trucking and pawing mean please? English is not my first language.
@@JaneDoe-ci3gj history channel here in US/canada was a channel that in the past had history documentary's like this show kinda, but in the present they often have shows that concentrate on moving goods by truck on ice roads, hunting alligators in the swamp, or seeing how much old stuff would sell for at a pawn shop
@Jane Doe
The TV channel they mentioned used to be about actual history and documentaries. Medieval history, Egyptology, both World Wars, etc. Now it is more about reality shows like Ice Road Truckers and Pawn Show that are more sensationalist stuff and not actual history.
Jane Doe
Trucking- The process of moving cargo via 18-wheel trucks
Pawning- (the literal and accepted use of the word differ) Literal: to offer an item of value as a secure for a loan; ie collateral
Accepted use: to sell an item of value for money.
The CEO of History Channel actually talked about it, saying he wanted to see a return to historical docus on HC... but he's the CEO. He's there to make money. And all that reality TV shit sells a lot better than docus on ancient Colombian civilizations or prehistoric China, unfortunately.
I work at a frozen food factory... the modern hood, the hoodie, is very important piece of clothing for those driving forklifts in the frozen warehouse!!!
A balaclava and the hood(ie) are absolutely essential!!
You’re right we don’t change that much we mainly just repeat ourselves, a lot people have similar ideas to people long ago. Great video thank you.
I actually gasped when he put on the modified hat and I recognized it, totally shooketh
Hhahahahahaha
I seeth what one did there
Roash from witcher anyone
How did a girl get here?
I'm glad I'm not alone in the audible gasp of realization department.
"Chaperon" actually means "hood" in French ("Le petit chaperon rouge" = "Little red riding hood"), so, there you go!
Merci beaucoup
When fashion goes crazy, it's always the French 🙃😄
This must connect to the English word "chaperone"... any insight on the etymology there?
@@jerotoro2021 a hood or hat keeps your head presentable and protected, a "chaperone" is a person who (supposedly) helps keep another person presentable and protected.
@@jerotoro2021 chapeau, cap, cape, chaperon (not chaperone) are all related, from Latin/PIE caput/kaput. (NOT related to the Yiddish kaput meaning dead).
A few years ago, I bought a quality burgschneider wool hood for the ren faires, but started using it, working outside during the cold snowy months. I get odd looks once in a while, but I don’t care.. it really works well and I’ll continue using it. The medieval people really knew how to stay warm! Cheers!
I love hoods. They’re great in New England, especially when it unexpectedly starts to rain or snow; your hood is always there. Mine is attached to a modern coat, but dressing in layers is timeless.
100000000 medieval paintings studied in my life and ow for the first time i can understand the origins of their hats! Amazing!
A picture is worth a thousand words, but a video can have more than a thousand words and it STILL has an image, videos are perfect, I wonder why in the Middle Ages they only insisted on making paintings, and did not see videos
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I love this sort of thing. When the re-enactors started making eleventh century hauberks, they found out that wearing the sword belt exactly as depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry is the most comfortable and helps distribute its weight on the hips. Surprise!
As someone who has spent many months sleeping rough I've found that when I'm shopping at the thrift store I favor the larger, deepest hoods when I'm looking for a hoodie. I've often wished that cloaks were still in vogue. Many times I've cut a hole in the center of a blanket that was the right size and fabric. I'm glad we have more choices than just wool but often I'd prefer wool to mist of the synthetics that abound.
Ok, I learned something new about my favourite medieval clothing item (and the commonly underestimated one). The rolling back stuff was new to me and that it was converted into a fancy head, I had heart short time ago, but now I can see how it was done and even why. (If it is too warm for the hood, but you want a hat...and people get suddently creative)
I found my hood from my medieval gear highly usefull, because even while sleeping in a tent, it keeps your head and shoulders warm and does similar things like the head of the mummy-sleeping bag, but is much more confortable. (And we had some nasty frosty nights in our camps.)
And it is fascinating, how warm a proper hood can keep you, even if you don't have a cloak with you. Ideal for mild days with some cooling down in the evening. Too warm for a cloak, but not entirely warm, so you need another layer. The equivalent to the "mid-season coat"...but much more versatile and modular.
I once used to have a nice warm woolen winter coat (until nasty clothing moths killed it), but it lacked any hood and so I weared my medieval hood other it (it was nearly the same colour)...perfect for cold ice rain. I was on my way home from a visit of a friend and it was a cold november night, when ice cold rain set in...rather unpleasant, but hood and coat did their job...only the water pouring down the wool dripped over my lower legs and the coat turned in the end out to get realy heavy. But it was ok...I felt much better, than the stranded group of young guys, who wanted home after pub or a party and were relativly druck...they were not proper equiped and waited for a Taxi that never came. The mood was not the best....but the comment someone made, as they saw me was great: " It is raining, it is cold, there are always taxis in this area, but there is no...and now even Dead is coming."
I walked away in the most elegant way possible. If you wear a usefull but a bit outfashioned gear, you could get promoted...even without a scythe.
Holy bonkers... With that roll-up technique you went from medieval to renaissance fashion in less than a minute!
And those hoods were later chopped back into berets, still worn in the military today.
Life-hack: how to be fashion when all you've got is your grandma's passé hood
@@shannonhayes2447 look at the stuff they sell these days in the shops. A lot of it is just retro from the 50s to the 90s. Be if weir peticoats to grundge look, you can currently recycle everything found in your own, your parents' or you grandparents' attick, cellar or garage. Even the old and ugly shapes for glasses are all the rage again
I absoluteley hate big 90's style hipster glasses.@@stringsattatched
Holy Beautiful
Can you imagine what future historians will say about things like wearing your pants low enough for your but crack to show? "Men of the 21st century were highly concerned with crack sweat, the lowering of the pants aided in air circulation and kept the wearer cool in hot weather".
They shall remember it as an ingenious solution to the discomforts of global warming
The lower the pants, the lower the IQ.
lol. it's actually interesting that in a way the sagged pants thing brings back the same idea behind slashed sleeves. "check this out, even my under layers are cool and aesthetic looking."
@@roberts7107
Same thing with ties, the longer and redder the tie, the more corrupt and stupid the wearer.
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I like how it proves that medieval people are the same people as nowadays, but in medieval times.
I think it is interesting how the cloak and the hood took good advantage of heat rising. The cloak would hold and funnel body warmth from the legs and torso and funnel it up and hold it around the chest and shoulders, add the hood and the heat coming up and out of the cloak from the neck would funnel up around the dead and face.
Maybe some of the old illustrations would have been a good accompaniment to this video?
Absolutely right
wiktenauer.com/images/6/66/MS_Ludwig_XV_13_32r.jpg
Here's one from a fencing manual from ca. 1404. I like this one because the subject appears to be wearing another, separate yoke.
Nah man. UK has insane copyright laws.
@@MurderHoboRPG Copyright does not go back to medieval times.
@@MrMonkeybat it was a joke.
When you turned the hood inside out I recognised the hat shape straight away and a lightbulb went off in my head going "NO WAY". That makes so much sense. We tend to think of our ancestors as being so different, displaced from our behaviour and thoughts through time and circumstance... but in the end, people are still people. Also goes to show, high fashion never made any sense.
I love history, what a great video!
don't worry, people in the future would think the same about us.
High fashion or low fashion? A lot of the modern fashion is not only ugly, but has also lost quality and purpose. Not saying everything though.
@@TrangDB9 Like high fashion back then had a purpose? Pointy shoes, corsets, ridiculously big dresses... they don't have an actual purpose. People liked them because society deemed it fashionable.
@@michaelhenry3234 except they're using 10 or 20% of the fabric nowadays (summer fashion), compared to back then. Anyway, look the fashion shows, mostly just ass crazy stuff.
@@michaelhenry3234 😂😂😂
My medieval hood has no linen lining. It is a single layer of wool, yet when I hike 5 miles or more in a snow storm or rain, it has proven comfortable & weather resistant. I have learned to turn the sides and lower edge, if needed, while leaving the upper edge out to offer shade or a bill, if you will, to fend off precipitation. I have turned the edge twice to change how closely it conforms to my head while affording better peripheral vision. The liripipe on mine was not quite long enough to tuck into the back when wrapped around my throat, so I added a tassel, which made the difference. I have hiked for hours in temps such as you began this video with & found the medieval hood answers the need surprisingly well.
What (and where) is the liripipe on his hood? Does it have a function ?
@@peetabrown5813 In both hoods, liripipe hangs to his left. It is the long tail - longer in the gray one - & he flipped the gray one around his throat loosely. If he wore the hood as in the first instance & wished to make the hood warmer in real wind (none in the first instance that is obvious) he could wrap it around his throat closely & trap warm air rising from his body. That is what I did by adding a tassel to mine. Had my hood as long a liripipe as his second example, it would have worked fine to wrap & tuck in place. To wrap & tuck is its first function, in my view. Someone has suggested it could also be used a a kind of pocket (which few people had in those days) & I suppose it could perform that function, although distributing weight might be a challenge. I'll try that.
@@kingdavidapple thanks , it is very interesting. Although this video is old he has a fascinating channel
Haha! I was thinking about backwards ball caps just before it's mentioned! This video was humorous and insightful! They may have lived very differently back then, but at the end of day, they still acted as people do! 😂 Loved learning this!!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Why do I have a feeling the guy who invented a cape-hat was the ancestor of the guy who turned a bathrobe into a Snuggie
Snuggies make perfect sense: they are great for wheelchair users
you know, given the statistics of human propagation, that’s way more likely than you may think.
Il Al a Snuggie is a bathrobe in reverse. Use a bathrobe
@@redram5150 aren't snuggies notably longer than a bathrobe? Plus aren't snuggies usually like made out of fleece while bathrobes are usually made out of terrycloth cotton. This on top of that snuggies often are sewn notably different from the shape of a bathrobe. I have never owned a snuggie (though have a friend who does), nor have I owned a bathrobe since my early teen years because I don't have any use of a bathrobe. It's really pointless to someone who gets undressed in the bathroom and gets dressed there too after immediately towelling off. I'm an adult who lives with my partner so I have no reason to lock the bathroom door while I shower. Not everyone owns a bathrobe nor a morning robe, but even if they did that doesn't mean their robe will fit their needs if they want a snuggie.
That's like telling me to just use two knitting needles if I want a pair of chopsticks because not everyone owns knitting needles, nor does the shape of the average knitting needle work as well as chopsticks, and additionally even the material the knitting needles are made out of can be unpleasant to eat with.
Edit: I don't want a snuggie either, I was pointing out that they have good use cases because "snuggies" (any robes sewn to be worn backwards while seated or lying down, not any specific brand) are usually a lot more comfortable for wheelchair users than wearing robes backwards so if they want one then don't be an ass about it to them.
Reincarnation 😂
I remember wearing a hood and cloak for hallowween one year and thinking "Wow this is like super warm and cool looking why don't we use these anymore?"
The same reason why woman's clothes makers forget to add pockets, so they can sell us more products to achieve the same level of functionality.
I know, it's sad. :( I love cloaks.
@@shallandavarpainterofsouls9509 So wear them! I've made enough round caps for fellows singing in a madrigal group, I decided to make one of canvas for myself & wear it year-round. Compliments all the time. Fine cap: keeps rain or snow off, casts enough shadow to keep sun off most my head and neck (2 inch brim.)
Because some modern fabrics are much better in the things you want done. We still have hoods, they are just an integral part of other clothing items. Some are well made, some are worse, some are there just for the show - but we still have them and use them. As for the cloak, that too you still have - usually as an added protection from rain or wind above a much warmer clothing. A modern raincoat/coat offers a much better protection from wind and rain, unlike the medieval ones that would either get soaked fast (wool) or be very cumbersome to wear (leather).
Long story short - humanity is not retarded when it comes to the use of certain items. If something IS useful, we use it - unless we find something better. When we do, we change, adapt.
So, while you could argue that the cloak is "cool looking" (to you it might be, to a person of the time it would an odd thing to say in the same way it is odd to you that jeans are cool looking - there might be cool looking ones, but they are ordinary and everyone uses them), it simply changed over time to a more useful clothing item(s). Now we make things that fulfill the same function but either better or cheaper. Oddly enough, "cool factor" is not what keeps things around, it is their usefulness and functionality.
Work outdoors in the winter, and you learn really quickly why Carhardt jackets with the heavy hoods are so popular with rural people and construction workers!!
I have watched his videos for a long while and have subscribed, I miss them when I can’t find them. He’s very informative, down to earth and entertaining with out focusing on violence and shock factor. He cares deeply about the medieval period and his animals. I wish more sites followed his example.
This was so great, that clothing looks so cozy, and relatively weather resistant too! Go wool!
You know this came from some guy who was sick of carrying his kids stuff around.
“I told you it was too warm for a hood but you wanted to bring it so you’re going to carry it!”
“But I don’t want too!”
“Here just turn it like this. Now it’s a hat.”
“It looks stupid!!!”
*passing nobleman: “hey, cool hat kid.”
Hahahaha.
*passing nobleman* hey kid, have you paid your hat tax?
@@addisonscout OI
@@addisonscout WHERES YOUR HAT LOICENSE
@@oldtimetinfoilhatwearer AHHAHAHAAHAH I love this comment section
Me: Ok, I should go to sleep now.
YT: Heres a Video about medival hoods.
Me: Ok just this one Video, cant be this good
Also Me: Proceeds to watch the whole channel after seeing a hood being turned isnide out
Yep me too! LOL
Linked_Soul LMBO, Me too!
*insert surprised pikachu meme here*
*:o*
Cool story, I'm sure your dog cares.
Lmao same got home work to do right now
I've always been a fan of long robey/cloak clothing. As a kid I was always enamored with anything Wild West, Feudal Asian or Medieval. Its time we bring those back.
I did not plan on watching videos about medieval hats today, yet here I am.
The infamous medieval bard, Flavor Flavio, he wore his hood a quarter turn. He also wore a large sundial chain.
He did the song Fight The Power!
(Of Aristocracy) and wore jheri curls.
@@bradhorner 😄
I smoked a lot of weed and Im enjoying "Flavor Flavio" as a name more than I probably should.
HWAT
YEEEAAAHHHH BOOOOIIIII!!!
Harken lads! If thou reversest thy hood, dost thou not reckon it looketh snazzy?!
"Lord what fools these mortals be!"
Tis quod sinful appeal to ye sodomyte, thou fell lollygagger.
Methinks it doth resemble naught so much as the arse end of an ox. But away, do thou as thee will. 'T is not for me to judge thy tastes or lack thereof.
Verily
Something Dreadful, I see what did there! You dog 😂.
I watched this when you first posted it, and being a lover of language, I can't believe I missed this.
The hat, "chaperon" of course sounds like "chaperonE", or, to supervise a couple on a date. Had to check the etymology, and it's 100% just that: chaperone has it's roots in the name for the hat!. You can totally imagine the idea of years and years of seeing little old ladies walking beside a couple to make sure there's no funny business, and those ladies eventually just being referred to by their head garment...the chaperon (with the "e" added in English).
I love how utilitarian older garments like this were.
The hood, the cloak, it's literally pieces of a survival kit that you wear to keep warm.
Keep sharing this all but forgotten information with the World!
what I find most appealing of your videos is how soothing and calming they are, the rustic environment, the homely and wholesome topics... This series is a blessing for my nerves.
Agreed!
Totally unrelated topic-wise, but the show Detectorists is like that. Great English humor, but not real silly. Very relaxing, yet entertaining show.
Instead of wars and bloodletting and shit, he focuses on stuff that actually comprised about 90% of people's lives, even knights. It's the low-key stuff that we all wonder about but doesn't often get addressed.
It's remarkable how few people wear hats today compared with 100 years ago. An underrated garment, I think.
And this makes more sense than the female aristocrats & the silly useless things they put on their heads.
The guys should be so lucky. If they wore hats, they could at least cover their bald spot.
Theory I read attributed this to the increasing use of cars, which had less & less head room over the decades. It does seem the only hats being worn over the last 30 years or so are very low profile.
@@katemarin8363 except for female aristocrats.
No it's overheaded.
I come from a long line of hat wearers.
I love the cloth face mask!!! It’s my favorite new cold weather item. It’s way more portable than a scarf, and it keep you really warm paired with a beanie/watch cap/tuque or a hooded sweatshirt
Could just wear one of them nylon balaclavas. Got the beanie and the mask in one garment, fits really well in the left hand ass-pocket, plus it’s thin enough to still wear a ball cap.
We should bring this fashion back. So practical and cool.
And here I was impressed when my brother wore his hoodie backwards to hold.snacks right by his face
Like a horses nosebag
@@mikha007 my thoughts exactly!
Sounds like your brother is an innovator
Can we have these vids for histroy class in all schools? This gentleman has connected history to our time like no other ever or since!! Keep at it, Sir!! You rock !!!
WHAT! NO! Are you insane? No no, school teachers can't be bothered to teach real history. They're too busy pushing "wokeness", CRT and other political biases on our kids. (blows raspberry)
I'm so glad this came by again, it keeps coming to mind as I consider the costumes of the period.
Now it's in my history file.
Really good stuff, really good.
One of the things we moderns get wrong about hoods is their size. We make them huge and drapey and romantic. It’s beautiful-if you can keep it just so on your head, and if there’s no wind.
In reality, medieval hoods were about as close-cut as the hood of a modern hoodie. They stayed in place without sliding around, and they didn’t let the wind in. Like any piece of indispensable daily wear, they were practical and well thought out.
And the distance around your face is roughly the distance around the top of your head, so unlike with a huge, romantic Gothy hood, you only need to turn the face side one or twice to fit the face over your head like a hat. Because that’s a thing people did. I will never stop finding that hilarious.
In fairness, I feel like the romantic, drapey hoods are less a wholesale invention, and more a historical mishmash, when they're applied to eras as far back as the medieval. Because for example in periods like the Regency, a wide hood would have a practicality to it - of a sort - in that it would at all allow upper-class women to wear cloaks with hoods, and still keep their giant bonnets and/or piled-up hairstyles.
This man is like everyone’s favourite history teacher
I'm portuguese. When I saw pictures of Prince Henry Navigator, I could never understand what the f*** he was wearing on his head. Now I know.
Sou brasileiro,devolvam nosso ouro e prata !!! Kkkkk
Me too!
"... the part below the Chaperone on about the neck..."
The mantle .
Thank you for the informative content
Such a random recommendation but got to say I thoroughly enjoyed this tidbit~
I have noticed in medieval art head wear is ubiquitous, but in films set during this era hardly anyone had headwear.
In films you need to see actors faces and hear them properly.
Unfortunately films set in this era don't strive to be historically correct, whether it's attire, weapons or the story. They like to take an ancient, well known story to help sell the film and then write a fantasy. Mary, Queen of Scots will draw more viewers than Renesmee, Imperatrix of the Elves, yet the former is almost as much a fantasy. Many viewers will think it's historically accurate though, based on the title.
@@sixchiensblancs Else, all will be as Kenny from South Park....
@@mfree80286
Lol... Yeah his facial expressions were hard to grasp... 😊
gavin Reid same reason Helmets aren’t worn on the big screen and everyone dresses in boring drab colored biker gear.
Wish we could get out of the boring everything is grey look that Hollywood likes to put over medieval/early modern aesthetic since the 90’s. Ironically, they trying to make things seem grounded and realistic, but reality is often colorful and odd.
when the hood turned into a chapreon I lost my mind ... it all makes sense now
I love watching this channel but this video really cemented in my mind the fact that you try and live life as though you were in that time. It allows for a very unique insight into the time period otherwise not noticed by a person living in modern life. Thanks for your dedication and I hope your mule is doing well
Painters are pictured wearing those strange hats! Now I know what it really is.
Everyone keeps talking about how cloaks and hoods are no longer socially acceptable. Here's the thing: you can wear it if you really want to. I wear leather vambraces all the time, and I only ever get positive comments on them. If you want to wear a cloak, just do it. No one's going to tell you that you can't. And if they do, unless they give a legitimate reason why in that situation you shouldn't, do it anyway.
And carry a sword. Trust me.
@@philt4346 Might run into issues carrying a weapon into certain public spaces, but... : )
@@LincolnDWard with an added opportunity to also fight for the privilege of carrying a sword
Nobody's saying that you'll get beat up or arrested for wearing something "weird", but you WILL get judged and treated differently. The question then becomes: is that something you're willing to deal with for the sake of wearing a "weird" garment you like? For most people, the answer is probably no.
It's 2021, dressing as a plague doctor is socially acceptable now.
Yeah, but would you relinquish the throne if the rightful king of Gondor returned?
Took me a minute but HE DOES resemble the guy...(!)
@uncletigger Aye, I used to be an adventurer like you. Then I took an arrow to the knee, and now I don't kneel.
Bart Geerts You win. I can’t top this comment.
Lo Bart Geerts, he is but only mortal.
Gondor needs no King!
I saw where you were going as you were rolling the neck - it totally makes sense how that hat design evolved. Excellent explanation. Thanks!
Thanks, your videos are always fascinating. It's clear you love what you do, and your enthusiasm is infectious
It's essentially the medieval form of tying a sweater around your waste when it gets warm out.
Tying any sweater around your waste would be a very malodorous and extremely foolish thing to do!
@@yogadr6 in what context?
It is much more secure than looping the arms around your neck like a medieval hood for a headless men
Or are you confusing the mid point between your hips and ribs as fecal matter/trash.
@@yogadr6 I see your inner editor showing😉
why would anyone want to tie a sweater around their waste when they could put it in the sewer ????? forget about it being warm out .
“Walls make a big difference to being warm.”
You never really apreciate walls untill you have none
@@hammermantbg Just like roofs: You don't appreciate their being over your head until they're on it.
You learn something new every day.
Reversing a piece of clothing that was designed to keep you warm would signify status of someone who had the luxury of indoor heating.
I truly enjoyed your video. It made my heart happy. I live in the Pacific Northwest and I am a seamstress and this idea intrigues me. Might try to mock one up for our cold and damp winter and spring.
Wonderful!
Hello from the USA! Our oldest child is almost 6 and he loves your videos. We all especially enjoy the ones featuring your horses. Thank you for providing family friendly and educational videos!
Wait till he gets to how you use bladed weapons to slaughter your foes.
And also Half swording
@Masterffc Not entirely, America has rich pre history... that's about it.
*have to be at work in 4 hours*
youtube: the inside and out of a hood
me: hmm yes
You got plenty of time
Got to have priorities. 😊
Hooters can wait
@@whoflungdung1046 Dweeb
Lizzie Danger 🤣🤣🤣
I laughed my A off. Those revelations are really interesting. As you were showing the various ways of wearing the hood I was thinking of the historical representation where I'd have seen this. Great find
Love historical dress, hair, and everyday reconstructions. Many historical dress channels are exclusively big poufy dresses for women only dealing with 18th century forward, occasionally the 16th. It’s only information about wealthy females. I am more interested in how all different types of people lived.
I lament the fact that cloaks are no longer everyday wear
Start a new trend yourself.
Lol, I have one and wear it on a regular basis anyway. XD
@MeadhbhNi Lol, I guess it depends on the style of boots you wear with it. :)
@MeadhbhNi a man who wears cloaks and boots together...... Isn't afraid of anything
@MeadhbhNi but I'll be warm and dry and able to swish dramatically down corridors 😎
I’m also fascinated with history for the same reason you stated: human beings don’t change.
I disagree strongly, my newborn son used to look like a dried prune and was pretty useless around the farm. Now 16 years later he looks like a younger version of myself and is handy with a John Deer.
It's paradox, because both this is to some extent true, but also the quote "the past is a different country; they do things differently over there" is also true. Keeping both in mind helps very much. Not one single thing that you perceive as self-obvious is guaranteed to be the same in a different era... and often exactly because people don't change, but they solve the problem in a different way in different circumstances.
ayebraine well put!
@@ayebraine history repeats, the details change.
sure, the rules were different, the politics were different and the weapons and wars were different. but people throwing hysterical fits because a bowl of rice was a coin higher than they were willing to pay? that's timeless.
for all your discussions
let me try to conclude it
human behavior never changes
just the way they apply their behavior is changing
We _must_ bring hoods and cloaks back, especially here in Britain. It's fricking cold!
It’s pretty damn cold here in Oklahoma, I could use a cloak right about now.
we wore cloaks at school and I never found them to be warm at all. I actually found them to be rather useless.
anastasia46 I imagine they weren't well made. A good layered cloak is better than what you'd expect a uniform to be made from.
Janice Sullivan Did you buy it or make it? Wondering if you have a good pattern. I've got to make my own.
@@ThePinkBinks Even a single layer of felted wool can be rather nice. I have one for some viking reenactment, and it's basically a heavy blanket you're allowed to wear outside; I rather enjoy it.
I think very little of modern fashion...I would say none (maybe just some kind of outdoor sportswear?) successfully combines comfort, practicality and aesthetics. The medieval hood does it in a way I'm in love with. If I had one of those I would certainly wear it in the streets.
Sportswear, despite the nice straightforward form and function of some of it, tends to look kind of bad because of all the artificial "performance" fabrics. Some of which are useful, and some of which actually perform worse than linen ._.
Reminds me of when I first noticed that a modern blazer is basically the same as a 19th century military coat but with all but 2-3 of the buttons removed. Explains the vestigial button hole on the lapel.
the modern peacoat is similar in this respect too!
@@nailgunammo yeah totally. It's a trip when you button up a double breasted pea coat all the way and realize "oh i look like a soviet military official"
Good point
Actually it doesn't because everything else has been removed and if the buttonhole wasn't needed then it would have gone too. We're not talking about appendix or third eyelids.
My third eye is blind...
God, this reminds me of when in grade school we would wear our hooded sweaters by just hanging them by our heads with just the hood
I have a backpack that i can do that with.
Oh yes! Like putting your duffelcoat on just by the hood, so you automatically had a cape to swoosh out behind you when you ran around. Those were the days. No X box etc, but a dead bee in a matchbox would do you most of the summer holidays! :0)
oh man totally,
I had a friend during grade school would always wear his older brother's hoodie, and since was so much larger, he'd wear it over his back pack. We'd all get a kick out of it, it was like a camel hump LOL
Or if we needed to carry something we'd put our hoodie on backwards
I thought that was what he was going to do. I was wondering what it evolved into.
The hoods that Graduans wear at their ceremony and many scholars and choristers wear weekly, can be used as functional hoods too. Many a chorister still uses it for its original intention when having to process outside in the winter.
This showed up today in my feed and it was lovely reviewing it once again..I couldn't believe it had been three years since I stumbled upon your channel. I am Arthurian to the core and watching and learning the inner working of medieval life has been interesting. I love Renaissance and how it brings to mind fantastical thoughts- damsels and the knights who would fighting to protect them, only to love them from afar lol
And, gives want to have lived back then, yet reality of life then, makes one thankful of modern times..but it is so welcoming and you are the perfect knight for teaching us.
Being a tomboy, loving my horses and riding, being in the midst of the boys and their mechanical toys has been great..but watching and seeing all that goes into actually being, living the life of a knight and what goes into you carrying on knighthood with others is beyond the best..thank you for the vicarious moments you have given me lol plus seeing your deep caring connection with your horse's and showing proper horsemanship..
Sorry, for the long rambling.. think I'm jealous, not just of you boys who get to get wicked with swords, javelin's and horses! But that I wasn't aware so to playing with you guy's , instead of other things lol
Thanks for being a longterm supporter, it's appreciated.
I’ve worn the same outfit as a woman in January in Sweden. It works a treat! Wearing it in the rain in Germany it kept me warm and the hood, worn as far forward acted as a porch to keep the water out of your eyes.
But doesn't it soak full of water?
Wool is warm even when wet. When I got caught in a soaking rainstorm for over an hour I found that most of the water ran off and since it retained my body temperature the rain didn’t make it cold.
My friend, a brother in the Franciscan Order (OFM) always wore his monks habit and a cape in winter
He was very social when I knew him. At one time, he was around the contestants of a fancy dress competition and the judges wanted to award him first prize!
True story.
I go to a college that was founded by a group of Benedictines, and it's always fun to see the monks walking around campus with their hoods up in the winter!
After gracefully decling the acclaim your brother should have walked home across a river or lake.
I know of one Order who not only use their habits and hoods as an extra layer when its really cold, they swap shirts and trousers for their cotton habits to keep cool in hot weather. Its the only time that I wear a skirt too. Air circulation is wonderful.
Two of my kids went to a Franciscan university. Nothing like seeing a Franciscan Friar in the same clothing the order has worn since the 1200s, talking on a cell phone.
And most of the Franciscans I have known would wear their sandals, often without socks, all winter- I am in Canada!
Simply the best thing I’ve seen on the Tube in months.
And I watch a lot of NileRed!
Great video. The music as you're walking thru the field gives me a satisfying feeling that hits me deep. Thank you.
Imagine the first dude to show up in the streets of nuremberg wearing his hood upsidedown.. What a hipster...
That little analogy to people turning ball caps backwards is spot on. Liked and subbed for more! Great work!
The reversed ball cap is still.. stupid. Looks like a duck who's had his face slapped hard, Daffy Duck you say?
@@grassroot011 In general, I agree with you. The very few exceptions are cute girls, Sylvester Stallone from Over the Top and the lead singer of Manchester Orchestra in the Shake it Out video. Lol
The only purpose I could see for wearing a cap backwards, is if you needed to look down a scope and didn't want your hat to fall off or bang against your rifle scope...
That's about it.
This originates with fielders switching the brim around to keep the sun of their neck or ears. It's very practical. I do it if I'm working outdoors in the sun.
I came to the same conclusion after seing this video. Liked and subbed...for more.
This content is fascinating. YT needs more videos like this
I am NOW in the process of rolling up my hood to try it! Great info here.