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Clothing for Apprentices

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  • Sumptuary Laws - Materials limited by social status
  • Clothing for Apprentices
  • Wear only items of clothing supplied by the apprentices master

Elizabethan Clothing - Clothing for Apprentices
Regulations for the Apparel of London Apprentices in 1582 incorporated the Sumptuary Laws, and were refered to as the 'Statutes of Apparel' of 1574

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Clothing for Apprentices

Statutes of Apparel Elizabethan Era Clothing for Apprentices
No apprentice whatsoever should presume:
  • To wear any apparel but what he receives from his master.
  • To wear no hat within the city and liberty thereof, nor any thing instead thereof, but a woollen cap, without any silk in or about the same.
 
 
 
  • To wear no ruffles, cuffs, loose collar, nor other thing than a ruff at the collar, and that only of a yard and a half long.
  • To wear no doublets but what were made of canvas, fustian, sackcloth, English leather or woolen cloth, and without being enriched with any manner of gold, silver, or silk.
  • To wear no other coloured cloth, or kersey, in hose or stockings, than white, blue or russet.
  • To wear little breeches, of the same stuffs as doublets, and without being stitched, laced or bordered.
  • To wear a plain upper coat of cloth or leather, without pinking, stitching, edging, or silk about it.
 
  • To wear no other surtout than a cloth gown or cloak, lined or faced with cloth, cotton, or bays, with a fixed round collar, without stitching, guarding, lace, or silk.
  • To wear no pumps, slippers, nor shoes, but of English leather, without being pinked, edged, or stitched; nor girleds, nor garters, other than of crewel, woolen thread, or leather, without being garnished.
  • To wear no sword, dagger, or other weapon, but in a knife; nor a ring, jewel or gold, nor silver, nor silk in any part of his apparel.”
 

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