The thing is, they won’t have perfect skin, but most people wouldn’t be ugly or look completely unkept. Medieval peasants knew about hygiene as well. If you want to know what medieval peasants probably looked like, just watch a documentary about tiny villages deep inside eastern Europe or Russia. You can tell tha a lot of the people living there don’t wear makeup or use a lot of skincare products, but they still look good and well kept. They look the way healthy and normal people look like.
I’m sure they had some grooming standards. But that’s not what we’re talking about. We’re talking about how fictional representations of medieval peasants have perfect skin. And the very obvious reason for this is that they are fictional.
The thing is, they won’t have perfect skin, but most people wouldn’t be ugly or look completely unkept. Medieval peasants knew about hygiene as well. If you want to know what medieval peasants probably looked like, just watch a documentary about tiny villages deep inside eastern Europe or Russia. You can tell tha a lot of the people living there don’t wear makeup or use a lot of skincare products, but they still look good and well kept. They look the way healthy and normal people look like.
I’m sure they had some grooming standards. But that’s not what we’re talking about. We’re talking about how fictional representations of medieval peasants have perfect skin. And the very obvious reason for this is that they are fictional.