A brief guide to life in Shakespeare's England.
Exceeedingly Fyne Clothes. David Stafford finds that the Elizabethans were fashion victims, enslaved to endlessly changing colours, cuts and cloths and spendinga fortune on their clothes. Fashion wasan extension of the rigid class system: the elaborate sumptuary laws defined what you could wear accordingto your social status.
See also Battle of Wills, tomorrow at 8.00pm. Director Daniel Percival ; Series producer
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