Tudor Fashion Women. 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 were clean shaven in early tudor times.
Wigs were also popular with women and when mary queen of scots was beheaded it is said that her wig fell off. Rich people could afford clothing made of fine wool linen or silk. Women women s clothing gave them a triangular shape.
Rich people could afford clothing made of fine wool linen or silk.
Tudor clothing continued to evolve as fashions and trends changed. Portraits show a woman s silhouette is conical in shape whereas the men s. Tudor england is famous for its beautiful and ornate clothing particularly during the reign of queen elizabeth i. The rich were the only people who could afford cotton and silk clothes.