La moda no es capricho. Mensajes y funciones del vestido en la Edad Media
2017; University of Castile-La Mancha; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Espanhol
ISSN
2254-6901
Autores Tópico(s)Medieval and Early Modern Iberia
ResumoespanolLos siglos finales de la Edad Media vieron como nuevas modas en el vestir irrumpian en Europa con un ritmo cada vez mas acelerado. Eran una de las manifestaciones de una sociedad mas dinamica, que utilizaba la vestimenta como un codigo de comunicacion privilegiado del estatus social y la pujanza economica y politica. Sin duda, las cortes nobiliarias jugaron un importante papel en esa activacion de la moda, pero el fenomeno alcanzo a buena parte de la poblacion urbana y a las capas mas acomodadas del campesinado, como lo demuestran las leyes suntuarias y la difusion del mercado de segunda mano. Hombres y mujeres rivalizaban por acceder a las novedades, que viajaban de un pais a otro con cierta facilidad, sin que la indumentaria, no obstante, llegara a homogeneizarse del todo en el continente. De esta manera, el cuidado de la apariencia, y la constante adaptacion a las novedades en el vestido, se convertirian ya entonces en acicates basicos para un nivel de consumo sostenido, que a la larga alentaria importantes mutaciones del sistema economico EnglishThe Late Middle Ages saw new fashions in clothing appearing in Europe with an increasingly frequent rhythm. These trends were one of the manifestations of a more dynamic society that used clothing as a privileged communication code of social status and economic and political importance. Noble courts no doubt played an important role in this activation of fashion, but the phenomenon reached a large part of the urban population and the more affluent layers of the peasantry, as evidenced by sumptuary laws and the spread of the second-hand market. Men and women competed for access to novelties, which travelled from one country to others quite easily, although clothing never became homogenous across the whole continent. Thus, the care of appearance, and the constant adaptation to new fashion trends, became two basic positive stimuli for a sustained consumption level, which, in the long run, promoted important changes in the economic system
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