Burlap Syndrome

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Burlap Syndrome is the tendency of medievalists to assume that everyone who lived in the Dark Ages|Viking Era wore filthy, poorly constructed, largely brown clothes. This impression has been well entrenched in the modern mind by Hollywood, and can be difficult to overcome.