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A Statute Concerning Diet and Apparel (37 Edw. 3. cc. 1, 3 - 19) (Latin: Statut' de Victu et Vestitu) was a sumptuary law introduced by the Parliament of England in 1363. It was one of a series of laws over a couple of centuries that form what are known as the Acts of Apparel.
The seventh-century BC law-text of Locrians by Zaleucus, the first written 'law code' in ancient Greece, stipulated: . A free-born woman may not be accompanied by more than one female slave, unless she is drunk; she may not leave the city during the night, unless she is planning to commit adultery; she may not wear gold jewelry or a garment with a purple border, unless she is a courtesan; and ...
The Cloth Act 1337 (11 Edw. 3. c. 2) was an Act of the Parliament of England passed during the reign of Edward III. The act legally obliged all English people to wear English-made cloth. [1] It was part of a group of Sumptuary Laws intended to preserve class distinctions. [2]
The English sumptuary acts of 1363 go into explicit detail about clothing items which were reserved for those below the king's status, putting restrictions on coat length and shoe height. [80] In this legislation, the intention was to prevent men from acting as if they were from a higher class by way of how they dressed.
The Lex Oppia had been primarily an economic measure in response to serious financial issues during the Second Punic War. However, the restrictions it imposed laid the framework for later sumptuary legislation designed to control expenditure on extravagance for social rather than economic reasons. [4]
People of lower-class or socio-economic status wore simpler clothes, often without a headdress at all. [16] One symbol of sumptuary law which could be commonly seen in the 15th century was the dress custom amongst women of making their hairline higher, called a bongrace. This custom was originally achieved by tying a ribbon of varying materials ...
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The Burying in Woollen Acts 1666–80 were acts of the Parliament of England (citation 18 & 19 Cha. 2.c. 4 (1666), [1] [2] 30 Cha. 2.c. 3 (1678) [3] and 32 Cha. 2.c. 1 (1680) [4]) which required the dead, except plague victims and the destitute, to be buried in pure English woollen shrouds to the exclusion of any foreign textiles.