Tudor Fashion Children. They still had time to play though. Inexpensive materials and fabrics including wool linen and sheepskin were limited to low status clothing of the poor.
There was a fashion for wide shoes under henry viii. Clothes were sometimes stuffed with a mixture of horsehair and rags called bombast to make people s shoulders and thighs look bigger. Their clothes were decorated with jewels and embroidered with gold thread.
Tudor kings and queens wore clothes made from the most expensive materials including satin silk and velvet.
They still had time to play though. Inexpensive materials and fabrics including wool linen and sheepskin were limited to low status clothing of the poor. This was a large decorative frill made from lace worn around their neck. Tudor boy children were expected to behave formally even with their families.