1. By: Amar Dzomba, Nyasha Mazhangara , and Anna Hodgman
Elizabethan Era
By: Amar Dzomba, Nyasha Mazhangara , and Anna Hodgman

2. Men’s Clothing
By: Amar Dzomba

3. General Clothing
Men wore a shirt, stocking (or hose), a codpiece, and a corset as underclothes.
Rich men usually wore brighter colors and more clothing like separate sleeves, breaches, belts, ruffs, fancy shoes, hats, and cloaks as over-clothes and accessories.
The higher up a person was with their class, the more color and clothes they would wear.
People liked to show off most of the clothes that they were wearing, to brag and show their status.

4. Sore neck
If a man could afford it, they would buy very showy and usually uncomfortable clothing.
Ruffs were thick neckpieces that occupied the neck. They were very frilly, and could be custom made to be even bigger than they already were.
Some rich men wore such tedious clothes that it would be a pain to walk and to eat.
Other things like headwear could be customized to have great detail, and cloaks could reach from your knees to the ground, with a great collage of color.

5. Purple Is a No-no
There were many laws about clothing in the Elizabethan Era, unlike in modern times. If these laws were to be broken, there would be consequences.
Some of the most major laws were about color. For example, only the royal family may wear purple. But these laws weren’t always so confined, because dukes, marquises, and earls could wear purple also, but only in very small amounts.
Though there are many color laws, they were usually classified according to how expensive the color was to get.

6. “Elizabethan Era Fashion”
Women’s
By: Nyasha Mazhangara

7. Upper Class Fashion
Most of the fashion in the class, was influenced by geometric shapes, rather than to the figure of the women’s body. Padding and quilting added to the elaboration of this design.
In most cases the dress, the common theme was to make the waist seem a lot small.
Even if you were filthy rich you were limited to what types of clothing you could wear. For example Gold could only be worn by the queen and her family such as sisters, mothers, and female cousins. But were not permitted to be worn by Viscounts and Baronesses.
In and thanks to this system, women were extremely competitive or in other words very pushy. Pushing their husbands to higher ranks and titles. among their class.

8. Lower Class Fashion
For the lower class the clothing differed in content and fashion and especially color. A women would normally dye her own colors from the fabric of wool, or have it pre-dyed wool from the local village weaver.
Colors used for Dyeing
Madderoot- Created a spectrum of reds (from light pinks to rich reds)
Woad- Made blues (powdery blues to bluish-grays)
Plants like Golden Marguerite- produced varieties of yellows, oranges, goldish-orange, yellows, oranges,
Blasck was a common color as well among the lower class.

9. (General) Lower Class Shoe Fashion
Boots- used for walking and riding
Gamache- high boot
Buskins- calf length
Shortups- Leather used for outdoor protecting
Pumps- Slip on Shoes (light)
Chopines- slip on shoes made from wood w/ leather covering
Clogs- Wooden shoes
Cork Shoes- Shoes with the cork in between foot and sole
Galoche- Protective overshoe slipper for indoors
Pantofle- this type came in 2 styles protective outdoors
Pinsons-Petite shoes

10. Children’s Fashion
By Anna Hodgman

11. Boys Fashion For boys, dresses were very popular
To identify boys dresses from girls the color for boys would often be a dark blue or a brown and black color
For dressing up for special occasions, older boys wore tunics with long pants and thin suits
Knee breeches were forbidden for little boys because it was considered too mature for them, older boys mostly wore them
Boys usually wore dresses until the age of nine through eleven
Surprisingly the father decided when the boys would, and if the boys wore dresses, and when they would stop wearing dresses as well
The fathers decision was based on his opinion of when he thought that the boy was maturing

12. Girls fashion As well as boys, dresses very also very poplar
The colors that girls wore light colors such as pink, red and yellow
If the girls were attending a fancy event, they would usually ware a dress that puffs out at the bottom
If you are very wealthy and a girl, you would ware purple because purple showed that your family was very rich and could provide you with many things
Not only would they ware purple to show that they were filled with fortune, they would also ware a type of goldish- brownish color with a pattern of red or orange

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