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In the Middle Ages fur accessories became extremely fashionable and served as decorative and luxurious outfit for noblemen. Medieval clothes provided information not only about the wealth of a person but also showed the status of the person wearing them. For example, only Royalty were permitted to wear clothes trimmed with ermine fur. The very Charlemagne (Charles the Great) always wore fur clothing which included cloaks trimmed with expensive ermine, petit-gris and fox fur. Seeking to purchase fur at a lower price, this king even reduced duties of fur import into the Roman Empire.
At that time fur fashion developed extending beyond the boundaries of the Roman Empire. The demand for fur was growing; as an illustration, 214 furriers were already working in Paris in 1272. As time went by, fur became not only the privilege of the wealthy, but it also became accessible to the middle class.
It was in the Medieval period that fur in Italy reached its peak. At the time a huge corporation named “Corporazione dei Vairari e Pelizari” engaged in fur trade was set up in Milan.
The Middle Ages could be characterised as the period of wearing clothing with ermine, sable and squirrel fur.
