Elizabethan Clothing - Elizabethan Clothing & Fashion for Men Elizabethan Clothing & Fashion for men varied according to whether they were a member of the Nobility, Upper Class or one of the poor, working class. But whether a man was wealthy or poor he was not allowed to wear whatever he liked...
He could be richer than a Duke but if he did not have an equivalent title he was not allowed to wear clothes made of the same fabric or even of the same color! Elizabethan clothing was governed by Sumptuary Laws which were designed to maintain the strict class structure which had started in the early Medieval era with the Feudal System.
Elizabethan Clothing & Fashion for Men Elizabethan Clothing & Fashion for men consisted of many layers including most of the following elements:
Underclothes!
Shirt
Stockings or hose
Codpiece
Corset
Over Clothes!
Doublet
Separate sleeves
Breeches
Belt
Ruff
Cloak
Shoes
Hat
Elizabethan Clothing & Fashion for Men Details, facts and information about many of the above items are described in considerable detail by accessing the appropriate links via the Elizabethan Era Sitemap
Elizabethan Clothing & Fashion - Men
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