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Christian doctrine dominates women’s fashion throughout Regia’s period of interest, never more so than with regards to In the instruction by St Paul for 9th century women to cover their hairwear the open palla. Although women adopted This is a number of ways large, light-weight rectangle of achieving this between cloth worn draped over the 9th to 13th centurieshead and shoulders. It was worn loose and open or else closed, three methods remained fairly consistent throughout: clasped at the chest with a brooch. An alternative head-covering is the simple long scarf type veil, the hood like wimple popular in both England and in Carolingian Europe, and worn loosely draped over the simple tied head scarf for working in. Head coverings are usually white and made from plain linen or light-weight woolwrapped around the shoulders whilst leaving the neck showing.<br>

A The dresses are simple style of dress is worn throughout, coming to the ankle length and to the wrist. The cuff of the dress can be either worn with tight sleeves to the wrist or else loose, showing the cuff of the shift underneath. Neck-holes are either round or oval, and can have a keyhole opening. Decoration, in the form of facings, embroidery or tablet weave, is generally only can be applied to the cuffs. Dresses are usually made from wool but can also be from linenand neck-hole. Tied belts of simple braid or cloth , sometimes ending in twin delicate silver strap ends, can be worn, but never belts of leather.<br>

For additional warmth a cloak can be worn. These are closed , clasped at the chest by either a large disc brooch of silver or by copper alloy. Poorer women would close their cloak with ties. Small delicate dress brooches are also sometimes worn such as the cloisonné brooches or bird brooches. Delicate pins , a pin of bone, iron or copper-alloy or silver were used to help secure clothing especially the head covering.<br>

Shoes are of the simple, two-part turn shoe construction and are usually low, coming to below the ankle. Belongings <br> Silver is commonly used for jewellery. Art styles still follow the Germanic preference for intertwined stylistic beasts like the Trewhiddle style.<br> ==Viking Women's Fashion AD 793-899==Most Viking women who settled in Britain were pagan and wore distinctive pagan clothing. They tended to very quickly adopt or adapt to local fashions, incorporating them into their style of dress.<br> Hair is usually long and braided, left bare or else covered with a small cap or scarf. The dresses are simple, ankle length and with sleeves to the wrist. Neck-holes are either round or oval, and can have a keyhole opening. Decoration usually in the form of facings, narrow silk strips and tablet weave can be carried in applied to the cuffs and around the neck-hole. Vikings don't seem to have favoured embroidery although embroidered panels were imported from other countries. Dresses are usually made from wool but can also be from linen.<br> Over the dress middle-class women can wear a Hangerock. This is a strapped sleeveless dress suspended from a pair of oval brooches. Between the brooches a shoulder bag single string of woolglass beads was sometimes suspended.<br> For warmth a cloak can be worn, clasped at the chest by a large disc, linen trefoil or equal-armed brooch. For middle-class women an alternative is the backtrain. This is a narrow pleated cloak suspended from the oval brooches. Finally some women may have worn a long open fronted coat, closed by a single brooch.<br> Shoes are of the simple, two-part turn shoe construction and are usually low, coming to below the ankle. Some rich Viking women may have worn low leatherboots following the Carolingian fashion.<br> Silver and copper-alloy are commonly used for jewellery. Art styles still follow the Germanic preference for intertwined stylistic beasts like the Oseberg and Borre styles.<br>