English Medieval clothing in England is usually classified as the time between the fall of the Roman empire to the beginning of the Renaissance. Roughly the years AD 410 – 1485.
A wimple is an ancient form of female headdress, formed by a large piece of cloth worn around the neck and chin and covering the top of the head. At many stages of medieval christian culture it was unseemly for married woman to show her hair. A wimple might be elaborately starched and creased and folded in prescribed ways.
Italian woman abandoned their head cloths in the 15th century, or replaced them with transparent gauze. Both elaborate braiding and elaborately laundered clothes demonstrated status. This Medieval headpiece is a gold glitzy sequined theatrical interpretation of the headpieces worn in the day.