Usually
in modern day life you can’t really tell if a person is poor or rich by
looking at their clothing, but if you lived in the medieval times you could tell
that someone was a peasant by looking at their clothes. Their clothes were
usually worn and faded by so much exposure to the sun and rain. 
Sun faded the
dye in the cloth and the rain washed it out. Plus they were also worn because of
all the work they had to do. You see, peasants were basically servants to their
lord and because they lived on his land they had to take care of his crops,
livestock, and fields. All the work showed in their clothes plus looking out for
their own animals and fields (if they had any,) but they were nothing to laugh at
for doing all that hard work. So next time you are judging someone by what they
look like, just think, they might just be like a medieval villager.
Today if you want clothing
you just go to a store and buy. Medieval villagers couldn’t do that. There
were many steps to getting that tunic: If you had 
sheep you would shear them
twice a year, then with their fleece you would spin wool. Then you weave it into
a fabric and then dye it and finally the women of the house would make it into
whatever it needed to be. If you grew flax you would spin it into linen-yarn and
weave it. Usually it wasn’t dyed.
Then it was turned into underclothes, sheets and mainly summer clothing.
That’s a lot of work for just a shirt!
