At some point in early mediaeval Europe, women and men wore very similar clothes – they had robes where the only real difference was the position of the waist. Sorry i can’t be more specific about that, but it may have been in the twelfth century. Given their focus on Christianity and the Bible and the strong prohibition on crossdressing in the Pentateuch, how did this situation arise? Wouldn’t those Biblical commandments keep women’s and men’s clothes very different in style?