Medieval hoods: A funny thing about medieval hoods and an amazing discovery!

I'll never stop being salty about the fact that hoods and cloaks are no longer socially acceptable attire.

Some drunk idiot: wears his hood the wrong way round Nobles: Yeah, this is high fashion now

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.

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.

Hoody , after over 1000 years back in fashion. Skinny jeans are equivalent to medieval tights. Very retro.

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.'

Year 2450: “And so that’s how our shoulder shields actually trace back to 21st century kids wearing their baseball caps backwards.”

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.

Let us thank the youtube algorithm for recomending us something interesting for once.

Okay algorythm... Surprise me

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.)

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???).

Kid: puts on hood the wrong way Noble: "You put it on wrong" Kid: "Oh, you haven't heard?"

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.

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.

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.

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!

I think all the weird wearable blankets are cloaks slowly making a comeback.

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.

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)