Traditional Viking Dress For Women

Linen is incredibly trendy right now and was also the trend back then too.

Traditional viking dress for women. Women wore one long dress floor or ankle length with an apron style dress over it. Both men and women wore a long cloak or a jacket to provide warmth and protection in inclement weather. Including women s viking coats women s viking dresses women s viking hangerocks aprons.

A matching wide cotton trim accents the cuff and the hem of this garment. What we know of viking clothing comes from archeological finds although we also glean some clothing descriptions from the sagas. Viking women would also adorn themselves with strings of glass beads and pendants pinned on by either large tortoise brooches or round brooches depending on their status.

We ve taken great care to put only the best of the best for sale here and all items are what we would wear ourselves. Both sides of this dress lace up using a matching ribbon allowing for a variety of adjustment. Check out our viking dress selection for the very best in unique or custom handmade pieces from our women s clothing shops.

Viking women had similar clothing to men often substituting a long shift with a norse overdress in place of a tunic. For men a thick shirt known as a tunic was worn over trousers. The most common outfit for a viking woman was an ankle length linen under dress and a strap dress also called an apron dress over it and just like the men there were.

In this section you ll find authentic viking age clothes and accessories such as viking wool pants and tunics viking dresses and leather bags. If we take a look at the women s clothing in the viking age we can see that the materials to make their clothes were the same as we re used to making the men s clothing. Vikings all wore the same basic clothing styles.

Here at medieval collectibles we carry an excellent assortment of norse and viking age clothing like rus pants dresses tunics shirts and shoes. Most of our knowledge of viking era clothing and textiles comes from archaeological finds while some comes from literary sources and written law. In the summer they would wear a much lighter linen dress which was much more suitable especially when the weather in scandanavia became warmer.