Elizabethan Clothing

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Elizabethan Clothing

• Mallory Frost
• Tasnuva Hyder
• Martin Africa
• Craig McCaw

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Elizabethan Era

• The Elizabethan Age was the period of
  renaissance. It involved having new ideas and
  new thinking methods.
• Clothing was useful towards forming the social
  ladder.
• A persons clothing determined their prosperity.
• Clothing was the symbolic way of identifying an
  individuals general rank.

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Apprentice Clothing

• Apprentices were limited to wear only the
  wardrobe that was presented and allowed by their
  masters.
• For example, they were simply to sport a plain
  upper coat of cloth or leather, without pinking,
  stitching, edging or silk about it.
• Another example is they could wear a woolen cap
  and no other sort and only within their city of
  residence.

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Peasant Clothing

• Peasants were allowed to wear basic material,
  such as cotton, leather, and wool.
• They were not permitted to wear any lustrous
  items of clothing for they were solely worn by
  the upper class.

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Lower Class

• The lower classes of the Elizabethan era were
  restricted to wear elementary material.
• They were not allowed to wear any elegant or
  sumptuous material.

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Servants

• Servants of richer citizens wore better clothing
  than the middle class.
• their clothing was a mark of their masters
  prosperity.

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Rich Men

• All Elizabethan people wore clothing that the
  Elizabethan Sumptuary told them they could wear.
  But mainly they wore two layers of clothing,
  underclothes and over clothes. The underclothes
  consisted of a shirt (usually linen), stockings
  or hose, a codpiece, and corset. Over that they
  wore doublet (which is a tight fitting jacket),
  separate sleeves, a belt, cloak, shoes, and
  sometimes a hat, both men and women, could also
  wear a ruff.

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A Typical Rich Elizabethan Man
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Rich Women

• Most rich women wore a lot of clothing on them
  each day. Like men, they wore two layers of
  clothing, outer and inner. The inner layer
  usually contains a chemise, stockings, corset or
  bodice, a farthingale (hooped skirt), a roll or
  rowle, stomacher, a petticoat, a kirtle,
  forepart, and a partlet. On the outside, they
  wore a gown, separate sleeves, a ruff, shoes, a
  cloak, and a hat.

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A Typical Rich Elizabethan Woman
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What did the woman wear?

• The woman of the Elizabethan era wore
• Hats
• Gowns
• Underwear
• Corsets
• Ruffs

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What kind of gowns did they wear?

• They gowns were influenced by geometric shapes
• To get these shapes they used padding,
  whalebones, buckram, and quilting.
• Rolls were worn around the waist to keep the
  heavy skirt up also to give the skirt a
  horizontal shape.
• The sleeves were attached and usually had padding
  or wings. The style of the pads were influenced
  by the men.
• The materials that gowns were made of were
  expensive - silk, satin, velvet, taffeta, scarlet
  and sarcenet
• They wore a corset to keep their upper body
  triangular and tight.

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What kind of hats did they wear?

• Woman had to wear hats, and most woman hid there
  hair behind their hats.
• Most hats had feathers, glass beads, pearls,
  gold thread, lace, embroidery, and spangles
• The little girls in the Elizabethan era wore
  Coifs a hat that was close fitted and tied
  underneath the chin.
• Woman also wore hats called a French Hood, a hat
  that had a veil in the back.
• Woman wore the Atifet, which is like the French
  Hood but had lace on it.
• They wore the Caul, which was an Elizabethan hair
  net.

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What kind of shoes did they wear?

• Boots leather shoes, used for riding and
  walking.
• Gamache was a high boot.
• Buskins calf high boots.
• Startups leather shoes worn for protection
  outside.
• Pumps light or single-soled slip on shoes.
• Clogs a wooden shoe.
• Corked shoes Corked shoes featured a wedge of
  cork between the foot and the sole

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Sumptuary Law

• Elizabethan men were not allowed to wear
  whatever they wanted. The fabrics and colors of
  clothes which men were allowed to wear were
  determined by their position and rank and this
  dress code was law. These laws about clothing in
  the Elizabethan era were called Sumptuary Laws.
  They were designed to maintain the social
  structure of the Elizabethan Class system.

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• Mens Elizabethan clothing emphasized their legs.
  Their legs were covered in hose, and a was garter
  placed right below the knee to draw the eye to
  the shape of their calf muscles.
• To emphasize a trim waist and muscled legs,
  breeches (short pants) would be worn, topped with
  a doublet (short jacket). To add fullness
  breeches would be filled with either bran or
  horse hair.

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A typical Elizabethan mans clothing
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Rich Male
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