By the 14th century, tunics were commonly cut to a closer fit than earlier medieval styles, worn as an undergarment or standalone outer layer depending on a wearer’s status and occasion.
This reproduction is made from two-toned cotton fabric, reflecting the parti-coloured fashions genuinely popular across parts of 14th-century Europe.
Deepeeka’s reproduction recreates that period-accurate 14th-century tunic, part of our historical clothing range.
By the 14th century, tunics were commonly cut to a closer fit than earlier medieval styles, worn as an undergarment or standalone outer layer depending on a wearer’s status and occasion.
This reproduction is made from two-toned cotton fabric, reflecting the parti-coloured fashions genuinely popular across parts of 14th-century Europe.
Deepeeka’s reproduction recreates that period-accurate 14th-century tunic, part of our historical clothing range.
The jupon was a fitted, sleeveless padded garment worn by knights over armour, often emblazoned with heraldry to identify the wearer amid the chaos of battle, distinct from the aketon or gambeson worn as a base layer beneath armour.
Unlike a purely defensive undergarment, the jupon could serve as a standalone display piece, worn over a mail shirt or plate cuirass to show a knight’s colours and arms.
Deepeeka’s reproduction is made from padded cotton, part of our historical clothing range.
Gladiators fought in minimal clothing by design, since the visible risk to an exposed body was central to the spectacle Roman audiences came to see, and a simple loincloth or short garment like this one formed the basic covering beneath any armour worn.
This reproduction is made from cotton, offering a practical, comfortable base layer for a gladiator impression.
This reproduction recreates that essential arena garment, part of our Roman heritage range.
This medieval-style shirt is made from cotton, offering an alternative cut to our other medieval shirt, suited to a general medieval impression across many social classes and periods.
Shirts of this basic form remained broadly similar in cut across much of the medieval period, worn as a base layer beneath a tunic, gambeson, or other outerwear.
Deepeeka’s reproduction recreates that practical medieval shirt form, part of our historical clothing range.
Known variously as the gambeson, aketon, arming doublet, or padded jack, this quilted defensive garment was a vital part of medieval equipment from around the 10th century onward, worn either as standalone armour or beneath mail and plate. Built from multiple layers of linen or wool stitched together by quilting, with stuffing that varied from scrap cloth to horsehair, a sufficiently thick gambeson offered genuinely excellent protection, absorbing and distributing the force of blows while preventing the chafing that bare mail or plate would otherwise cause against the skin. The word aketon likely derives from the Arabic al-qutn, “the cotton,” reflecting the garment’s origins and preferred stuffing material.
This short-cut version offers a lighter, more mobile build than our full-length gambeson, suited to wearers prioritising freedom of movement.
Deepeeka’s reproduction recreates that essential piece of medieval arming wear, part of our historical clothing range.
