An article called “Elizabethan Clothing” has written, “the clauses applied to actors (and their costumes)…Licenses were granted by the Queen to the aristocracy for the maintenance of troupes of players” (Alchin). The seriousness for which Elizabeth considered the matter is exemplified with the consequences for violations. These included, “fines, the loss of property, title, and even life. People living in the Elizabethan era only wore clothes that they were allowed to wear —by Law”(Alchin). In addition, Paige Hanson writes from the webpage “Renaissance Clothing and Sumptuary Laws” when she states, “Clothing violations, whether classed or gendered are enforced to keep conformity, preserve class distinctions, and with these, preserve social harmoney, as a gender- and class- segregated society”(Hanson) .The Statutes were demolished in 1603, however, and it is believed that citizens continued to display one’s social position through clothing throughout the seventeenth century (Lublin
An article called “Elizabethan Clothing” has written, “the clauses applied to actors (and their costumes)…Licenses were granted by the Queen to the aristocracy for the maintenance of troupes of players” (Alchin). The seriousness for which Elizabeth considered the matter is exemplified with the consequences for violations. These included, “fines, the loss of property, title, and even life. People living in the Elizabethan era only wore clothes that they were allowed to wear —by Law”(Alchin). In addition, Paige Hanson writes from the webpage “Renaissance Clothing and Sumptuary Laws” when she states, “Clothing violations, whether classed or gendered are enforced to keep conformity, preserve class distinctions, and with these, preserve social harmoney, as a gender- and class- segregated society”(Hanson) .The Statutes were demolished in 1603, however, and it is believed that citizens continued to display one’s social position through clothing throughout the seventeenth century (Lublin