Elizabethan Clothing & Fashion - Women Elizabethan Clothing & Fashion for women varied according to whether they were a member of the Nobility, Upper Class or one of the poor, working class. But whether a woman was wealthy or poor she was not allowed to wear whatever she liked...
She could be richer than a Countess but if she did not have an equivalent title she 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 Women Elizabethan Clothing & Fashion for women consisted of many layers including most of the following elements:
Underclothes!
Smock or shift, also called a chemise made of linen
Stockings or hose
Corset or bodice
Farthingale - a hooped skirt
A Roll or Rowle
Stomacher
Petticoat
Kirtle
Forepart
Partlet
Over Clothes!
Gown
Separate sleeves
Ruff
Cloak
Shoes
Hat
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Elizabethan Clothing & Fashion for Women 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 - Women
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