Medieval Russian fashion

[lilian567321]

Hello,

I'm writing a fantasy book set in medieval times, around the 14th century. One of the characters has a thick, winter coat from what would roughly be Russia. It's a coat with a woolen exterior, it's lined with cotton quilted fabric and has fur linings on the edges of the coat and on the hood of the coat.

My question is how realistic would this coat be in around 14th century Russia and why or why not, provided we say real-world Russia is the exact same as the one in my fantasy world, i.e. same climate, landscape, surrounding countries and political relations etc.

Thank you in advance,

Lillian K.

Comments

[full_metal_ox]

Fur would be a fairly traditional - and practical - liner, not least because of its warmth but also for the ease of hunting smaller game and stitching pelts together for a whole lining. Cloaks would also be hugely popular around the 1300s (and before, and also in some iteration afterward, now somewhat coming back into fashion in the modern day), because they're easy to make, easy to size (add belt!), and create a very warm bubble of air around you that coats with their sleeves are sometimes unable to mimic.

You may recall the black sheepskin cloaks worn by the Night’s Watch in Game of Thrones. (Which—Fun Fact—were made from IKEA sheepskin rugs, spurring a run on that item in that color. They’re still out.)

[texasdreamer01]

I remember seeing a post about that XD Cloaks look pretty comfy, for all their difficulties to wiggle one's arms around due to a lack of sleeves (but, then again, it also became popular to cut some slits into the cloaks for just such a reason).