Tudor Fashion Rich. A gown was worn fashionably over the shoulder. Inexpensive materials and fabrics including wool linen and sheepskin were limited to low status clothing of the poor.
Very few original garments have survived from this time and the nature of portraiture has meant that our knowledge of what the average tudor man or woman wore is very limited as only the rich and powerful could commission them. At court women s gowns usually consisted of a smock petticoat kirtle. 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.
Rich people could afford clothing made of fine wool linen or silk.
Clothes were a means of displaying how wealthy a person was. From early tudor fashion to late sumptuary laws controlled the clothing tudor men and women could wear. Very few original garments have survived from this time and the nature of portraiture has meant that our knowledge of what the average tudor man or woman wore is very limited as only the rich and powerful could commission them. Clothes were a means of displaying how wealthy a person was.