https://moas.atlantia.sca.org/archive/wsnlinks en-us During the late 1500s, Queen Elizabeth I passed a series of strict laws relating to dress codes. The laws ensured that people across the social spectrum dressed according to their rank and class. At this time, England was importing great quantities of luxury fabrics, and the Queen expressed concern that her subjects were spending too much money on 'unnecessa ry foreign wares' and 'vain devices'. The laws allowed her to curb extravagan t spending, and to define and set the distinctio ns between the different strata of society. Those found dressed in inappropri ate clothing could be fined. This document specifies the fabrics and types of clothing that each social rank was permitted to wear, such as specific types of embroidere d silks, 'tinseled' satins, furs or 'purpures' - a type of purple or crimson robe. http://www.bl.uk/learning/timeline/item126628.html Sun, 18 Feb 2018 04:10:10 GMT https://moas.atlantia.sca.org/archive/wsnlinks/link.php?action=detail&id=21330 https://moas.atlantia.sca.org/archive/wsnlinks/comments.php?id=21330 http://www.elizabethancostume.net/cyte/allpages/31466 Sun, 31 Aug 2014 16:37:56 GMT https://moas.atlantia.sca.org/archive/wsnlinks/link.php?action=detail&id=21075 https://moas.atlantia.sca.org/archive/wsnlinks/comments.php?id=21075 These documents are from a number of account books found in the Essex Records office. Some are account books belonging to William Petre, D/DP A6 and D/DP A10, and some belong to his some John Petre (D/DP 17-22). There is one book per year, from Michelmas to Michelmas, and they record all expenditur es of the estate: diet, building and repair, household expenses, miscellane ous expenses, wages and receipts and apparel. They are of particular interest due to the numerous detailed tailors' bills for apparel they contain, for both the master (John Petre) and his servant's livery. There is also, in one book of account, a complete year's worth of informatio n on all apparel and expenditur e for three of his children. http://www.elizabethancostume.net/cyte/petre Tue, 15 Jul 2014 14:29:46 GMT https://moas.atlantia.sca.org/archive/wsnlinks/link.php?action=detail&id=21072 https://moas.atlantia.sca.org/archive/wsnlinks/comments.php?id=21072 Free download of a PhD thesis, focusing on late Medieval north-east England, and the trends in dress accessorie s worn there. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/436/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:55:55 GMT https://moas.atlantia.sca.org/archive/wsnlinks/link.php?action=detail&id=20923 https://moas.atlantia.sca.org/archive/wsnlinks/comments.php?id=20923 I've cropped a selection of ladies from photograph s of brass rubbings for analysis of their veil formations . The veils on some of these images are easy to understand . On others, not at all. Are we seeing a form of veil stylizatio n that can only be explained as the brass incising equivalent of visual shorthand? Or, are we seeing an accurate-b ut-stylize d portrayal of each crease or edge of the veil(s)? http://www.cottesimple.com/1480EnglishLady/image_montage_master.htm Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:06:32 GMT https://moas.atlantia.sca.org/archive/wsnlinks/link.php?action=detail&id=20910 https://moas.atlantia.sca.org/archive/wsnlinks/comments.php?id=20910