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Elizabethan Clothing & Fashion - Men

  • Interesting Facts and information about Elizabethan Clothing & Fashion for Men
  • Upper Class Fashion
  • Men's Clothing - doublets, breeches, underwear, collars, ruffs, hats and shoes

Picture of Queen Elizabeth I

Elizabethan Clothing & Fashion - Men

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 Lawswhich 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
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 for Men
Elizabethan Clothing & Fashion for men consisted of many layers including most of the following elements:

 

Underclothes!

Over Clothes!

Shirt

Doublet

Stockings or hose

Separate sleeves

Codpiece

Breeches

Corset

Belt

 

Ruff

 

Cloak

 

Shoes

 

Hat

 
 

Elizabethan Clothing & Fashion - Men

  • Interesting Facts and information about Elizabethan Clothing & Fashion for Men
  • Upper Class Fashion
  • Men's Clothing - doublets, breeches, underwear, collars, ruffs, hats and shoes
  • Hair styles
 

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