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Rich Apparel: Clothing and the Law Henry VIII's England

This 420 page monograph is a key output from the AHRC Research Centre for Textile Conservation and Textile Studies. It draws on extensive archival research alongside visual sources, innovatively exploring the social significance of male clothing in early Tudor England and considering the implications of women being exempt. Framed using the sumptuary law, which sought to regulate who could wear what, the analysis offers an original way to assess how colour, fabric and jewellery were used to assert status, membership of particular social groups, or to demonstrate social mobility.