Church of San Niccolò al Carmine

Clothing of Mendicant Friars

  • The habit worn by all the mendicant friars, whose model derives from the monastic one, had to be made with raw materials which had not been processed, dyed or trimmed in any way as a sign of poverty. For the same reason even underwear was made of coarse fabric, and the friars were allowed to wear raw hide sandals when outside the convent and felt slippers while when they were in their cells; most . . .