page_title: Anglo-Saxon dress
section_title: Fifth to sixth centuries
hierarchical_section_title: Anglo-Saxon dress / Men's costume / Fifth to sixth centuries
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Rückseite der Tunika aus dem Thorsberger Moor in Schleswig-Holstein, ca. 4. Jh. English: Back side of a kirtle from the Thorsberg Bog in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, approx. 4th century. Dansk: Kjortel fra Thorsbjerg Mose, Sydslesvig. Fundet stammer fra jernalderen.
context_page_description: Anglo-Saxon dress refers to the clothing and accessories worn by the Anglo-Saxons from the middle of the 5th century to the eleventh century. Archaeological finds in Anglo-Saxon cemeteries have provided the best source of information on Anglo-Saxon costume. It is possible to reconstruct Anglo-Saxon dress using archaeological evidence combined with Anglo-Saxon and European art, writing and literature of the time period. Archaeological finds have both supported and contradicted the characteristic Anglo-Saxon costume as illustrated and described by these contemporary sources.
  The collective evidence of cemetery grave-goods indicates that men's and women's costume was not alike. Women's dress changed frequently from century to century, while men's dress changed very little. Women typically wore jewellery, men wore little or no jewellery. The beginning of the seventh century marked the conversion of Anglo-Saxon kingdoms to Christianity. Religious art, symbols and writings from the conversion years greatly influenced costume fashion from this period onward, especially's women's dress and jewellery.
caption: 4th century Germanic tunic found on Thorsberg moor
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