In the Middle Ages in Europe, you were doing pretty well if you even had time to think about fashion. The images in the slideshow below, from illuminated manuscripts now showing at the Getty Center, shows not just the upper crust’s real style, but also their opulent fantasies. The Getty explains: “Wealthy patrons commissioned images of a perfect world, filled with glamorous versions of themselves and rather too well-dressed peasants.”
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