AGES ERA PERIOD
ELIZABETHAN PERIOD
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Question
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Purple silk dresses
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Woolen underwear
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Sable-lined cloaks
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Velvet coats
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Detailed explanation-1: -Away from the luxury of the monarchy in the Elizabethan era, life for ordinary people was often hard and the number of poor people increased during Elizabeth’s reign. Unlike now, there was no welfare system or support for anyone who fell on hard times.
Detailed explanation-2: -Elizabethan England had four main classes: the Nobility, the Gentry, the Yeomanry, and the Poor. A person’s class determined how they could dress, where they could live, and the kinds of jobs people and their children could get.
Detailed explanation-3: -Elizabethan Poor Law The growing number of poor was in part due to the collapse of the medieval feudal system. Also due to the Dissolution of the Monasteries between 1536 and 1540 during the reign of Henry VIII, many Catholic monks and nuns were left homeless and the poor they serviced without a place of refuge.
Detailed explanation-4: -Peasants generally had only one set of clothing and it almost never was washed. Men wore tunics and long stockings. Women wore long dresses and stockings made of wool. Some peasants wore underwear made of linen, which was washed “regularly.”