Lady Poor Tudor Clothing. Tudor gowns were designed to give women a triangular shape while men s clothes gave them an almost square shape. This lady wears a soft satin walking dress with the short waist and full flowing skirt fashionable from around 1620.
Have a look at this video clip which provides details about some of the clothes worn by henry viii. Poor people in tudor times wore simple woolen clothes. Clothes were a means of displaying how wealthy a person was.
Women s hair was swept back and kept tidy under a french hood.
The rich wore fine quality wool unlike the poor who wore coarse wool. Their clothes were decorated with jewels and embroidered with gold thread. Men wore close fitting jackets called doublets which could be richly decorated. Poor people in tudor times wore simple woolen clothes.