The splendid costumes of the figures are most surely one of the most fascinating of the features of the Chantilly codex. It is, truly, a fashion show illustrating for us the tastes of early fifteenth century France. Damsels and knights abound, draped in gold embroidered fabrics and adorned with priceless jewellery… not to mention their bizarre headgear! Of equal interest is the less elaborate clothing of the representatives of lower classes, ranging from pages, valets and squires to the peasantry: figures who, meticulously portrayed, are of enormous historic interest as ‘documents of an age’.  The ‘wardrobes’ of the many figures in attendance at the devotional scenes are also quite varied – the elaborate dress of the Magi Kings, the pure white of the nuns and monks, the armour of the soldiery, and the elegance of the softly sweeping drapery of the Virgin, Christ and other biblical figures.