Cool weather and sheep herding traditions led them to rely on wool as their primary fabric, and most of their garments were made from wool. The different tribes of nomads who defeated the Roman Empire and populated Europe had developed their clothing amid a very different climate than ancient Rome's.
Simple wool garments of the early Middle Ages By the end of the Middle Ages, Europe was developing distinctive and refined costume traditions of its own. After the eleventh century, trade, travel, and wealth increased, and clothing became more sophisticated. Clothing traditions in Europe developed slowly at first, with only minor changes in basic costume until about the eleventh century. Over the course of the next one thousand years, however, the emerging kingdoms of Europe began to develop more refined costume traditions of their own. The fine linen and silk togas and draped robes of the Romans disappeared and were replaced by crude wool leggings and fur-lined tunics, or shirts. Nowhere were these cultural changes more apparent than in the area of clothing. These new Europeans retained the Catholic Church and the Latin language, yet most every other area of culture changed.
Roman trading networks, civil administration, and learning disappeared, to be replaced by the cruder social structures of the barbarians. –476 c.e.), which had provided the structures of civilization across Europe for nearly five hundred years, collapsed in 476, and bands of nomadic people who the Romans had called barbarians -Goths, Huns, Vandals, Franks, and others -took control of much of western Europe. 1500) was, as its name implies, a great age of transition.
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