What did minstrels wear?

Answer 1

In the Early Middle Ages, bards wore very much the same clothes other people of their station did, which is to say, usually they dressed like peasants of whatever area they were in, very simply and with very little view to looking at all fancy. Their garment in Britain, for example, would have been made of wool, and would have included trousers and simple shirts, or a one piece garb.

As time passed, the music of bards began to be incorporated into secular theater, and the bards came to be valued more, both by peasants and by nobility. With the coming of fancier dress, the bards began to see reason to advertise themselves, and included theatrical appearance as part of the act. They began to wear clothes that look more like the joker in a deck of cards.

There are records of the Late Middle Ages, when counterpoint was new and music took on a sound never before heard, with syncopation and different songs being sung simultaneously. These records talk about the bards wearing pants with legs of different, clashing colors, or diamond patters, shirts dyed in wild designs, and hair that was spiked and painted green or blue. And after that, they never went back to the old ways.

Answer 2

A woolen tunic in the Roman style with turn style leather shoes, a hat, and a sheepskin cloak. Very simple and plain clothing since they were of the peasant class.

Answer 3

Minstrels wore brightly colored tunics, (red, orange, yellow) tights, and a rope tied around their waist like a belt.

Answer 4

There were no female minstrels or actors. Women weren't allowed to do things like this.