Rich Male Tudor Clothing. Men wore close fitting jackets called doublets which could be richly decorated. Tudor clothes for the poor the sumptuary laws were designed to limit the spending of tudor people on clothes and to maintain the social structure of the tudor class system.
Men still wore doublet and hose but the coat had been replaced by a short jacket. Tudor men wore short trouser like garments called breeches. Over these went bodices and colourful floor length gowns.
Over the jerkin rich men wore a gown or later in the 16th century a cloak or cape.
Men meanwhile wore a shirt jerkin doublet overgown and a hose. Men the men s fashion had not changed as much as the women s. From early tudor fashion to late sumptuary laws controlled the clothing tudor men and women could wear. Tudor clothing continued to evolve as fashions and trends changed.