Queer Old Sumptuary Laws of the Middle Ages.; Use of Ermine and All Embellishments of Pearls Except in a Headdress Were Forbidden---Knights and Esquires Couldn't Wear Rings or Buckles.

In the administration of the new Excise Law, there is a danger which the Board of Excise cannot consider too carefully. To a certain extent they are the guardians of the morals as well as of the ...

From "no white after Labor Day" to dictates about denim, feel free to stop following these silly rules, according to style experts.

Her research, "Sumptuary Laws, Gender, and Public Dressing in Early Modern Genoa" was published in The Historical Journal in September.. In early modern Genoa, an important center of commerce ...

Sumptuary rules restricting extravagance in consumer goods were in effect very early. Queen Elizabeth I of England passed a law dictating the maximum width of the fashionable ruffs in 1580 and a 1634 ...

Sumptuary laws imposed a fine on those attempting to copy the fashion choices of the nobility. For the nobility, funeral garb was an expression of both wealth and fashion.

It sounds like a modern version of the sumptuary laws dating back to the 13th century which discouraged people from parading themselves in expensive kit. No one likes a swank parading in a fancy ...