Just out of idle curiosity, what were clothing like around 1000 A.D.? This relates to the "what if you were transported back to the year 1000 A.D." hypothetical survival situation. There was a claim made that your clothing (especially your shoes) would be far superior to the textiles of the day.
This generally assumes Europe, but other locations would be interesting to know about as well. Especially the Chinese.
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Suggested in the /r/History thread to post this here. Original Thread
In China, Song Dynasty (960-1279) fashion became extremely simple and conservative compare to the previous Tang Dynasty, partly due to Neo-Confucian Cheng Zhu school's philosophy on materialism*. Men and women both wore very simple robes, but men's robes started to have round "crew neck" collars as oppose to the Y shaped collars similar to kimono robes. Women's clothes are often made from fancier patterns and/or worn with flowing shawls.
For examples:
Children playing (fancy pattern child is a girl.)
Some more adults (you can see some women wore the flowing shawls).
Foot binding first became popular in Song Dynasty (although it started much earlier).
*Cheng-Zhu school was named after philosopher Cheng Hao and Zhu Xi. It combined some parts of Buddhism (especially concerning materialism and human desire) with Confucianism, their most famous quote is "If Heaven's morality is to be preserved, human desires must be extinguished" (存天理、灭人欲). Followers of this philosophy believes morality trumps all material goods and desires. Zhu go as far as condemning delicious food as "human desire" that should be forbidden while Cheng opposes widows remarrying because losing purity is considered worse than starvation.
