Elizabethan Fashion for Men

Elizabethan Fashion for Men

• Underclothes
  Shirt
  Stockings or hose
  Codpiece
  Corset
  


• Over Clothes
  Doublet
  Separate sleeves
  Breeches
  Belt
  Ruff
  Cloak
  Shoes
  Hat

Elizabethan Clothing and Fashion for men varied according to whether they were a member of the Nobility, Upper Class or one of the poor, working class. But whether a man was wealthy or poor he was not allowed to wear whatever he liked.

He could be richer than a Duke but if he did not have a good title he was not allowed to wear clothes made of the same fabric or even of the same color. Elizabethan clothing was governed by Sumptuary Laws which were made to maintain the strict class structure which had started in the early Medieval era with the Feudal System