FASHION IN ELIZABETHAN TIMES

WOMENS CLOTHING

• They wanted their clothing to look like the men's.
• Their dresses were in two pieces.
• Different classes had different styles.
• It took them a long time to put their clothing on.
• One's clothes and fashion defined your social status.

LOWER CLASS WOMENN

• They had no set style.
• Their color of clothing was different from the upper class
• The women would dye their wool.
• The society had strict rules on what you could wear.

UPPER CLASS

• Only royalty was allowed to wear gold.
• Fur, velvet, silk, lace.
• The upper class was allowed to wear expensive clothing.

PUTTING ON AN ELIZABETHAN OUTFIT (IN ORDER)

• Smock (leed)
• Stockings (leed)
• Corset (leed)
• Spanish Farthingdale(leed)
• Bumroll (leed)

(CONTINUED)

• Petticoat (leed)
• Kirtle and forepart (leed
• Partlet (leed)
• Gown and sleeves (leed)

FACTS ON ELIZABETHAN OUTFITS

• Not all women wore the same thing, what they wore depended on their age.
• Putting on an upperclass gown was a very complicated process.
• Dresses were put on in an order.

ELIZABETHAN MEN'S FASHION

• Depended on rank in society. (Alchin)
• Wealth did not matter. (Alchin)
• Strict laws about wardrobe laws.(Sadeen)

THE NOBILITY

• Wore fine and expensive clothing. (Alchin)
• Different then all the others. (Alchin)
• Silk, linen, wool, fur, lace. (Sadeen)

WORKING AND LOWER CLASS

• Very different laws. (Sadeen)
• Wool, rougher fabrics. (Alchin)
• Restricted to certain clothes. (Alchin)