Tudor++clothes

Tudor clothes The clothes were made of fine wool.

Tudor England is famous for its beautiful and ornate clothing, particularly during the reign of Queen Elizabeth1.

Clothes were a means of displaying how wealthy a person was. Rich people could afford clothing made of fine wool, linen or silk. Their clothes were decorated with jewels and embroidered with gold thread.

No rich person felt properly dressed to impress unless he or she was wearing a ruff. Like so many Tudor clothes, it gave a strong signal about the wealth and importance of the person wearing it.

Tudor clothes, it gave a strong signal.

Rich ladies wore padded skirts held up with loops. Over these went bodices and colourful floor-length gowns.

Rich men wore white silk shirts, frilled at the neck and wrists. Over this they wore a doublet (a bit like a tight-fitting jacket), and close-fitting striped trousers (called hose).

Everyone wore their hair shoulder lenghth.

It was all to do with fashion, a bit like ripped jeans are today. It was the in thing to wear ruffs and for ladies to make their stomachs as small as they could by wearing corsets and wide skirts.

Poor people wore simple, loose-fitting clothes made from woollen cloth.

Most men wore trousers made from wool

Women wore a dress of wool

They often wore an apron