Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Elizabethan England-Clothes

Clothes in the Elizabethan age:
-Women wore more classy clothes ,like dresses or gowns, then the women today
-Women often wore a hoop skirt
-They wore more things to make their body appear perfect
-Women wore hats
-Women had more under clothes then guys
-men have more options for over clothing
-the men wore a corset also
-they had the Elizabethan Sumptuary law that made sure certain classes would dress appropriately
-the clothes people wore, symbolized there class of life
-only certain classes could were certain colors
-the higher class could were colors like purple
-it was forbidden for lower class to were higher class colors
-if lower class wore higher colors then consequences would be put into effect

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