sumptuary laws

From early times, they pressed for sumptuary laws and taxes.

I would make a gentleman of him, in so far as the sumptuary laws allowed.

In certain places sumptuary laws regulated the dress or the food of the people.

The sumptuary laws allowed him to wear six colours in his clothes, the same as the king.

Throughout history, societies have used sumptuary laws for a variety of purposes.

Sumptuary laws were not updated in China until after about 1550, but had long been ineffective.

In some cultures, sumptuary laws regulate what men and women are required to wear.

The administrators occasionally brought about legal regulations on clothes (see sumptuary laws).

Due to the sumptuary laws, deep purple was restricted to the nobility of the times.

History provides many examples of elaborate sumptuary laws that regulated what people could wear.

Like the rest of the population, they were bound by sumptuary laws based on the inheritance of their social class.

A code of nit-picking sumptuary laws dictated who could own and wear what.

Meddle, and you snap the sinews with your sumptuary laws.

Thirdly, such taxes would operate less as sumptuary laws.

They found ways of evading the restrictive sumptuary laws.

The veil marked class status, and this dress code was regulated by sumptuary laws.

Traveling was regulated and conspicuous consumption discouraged through sumptuary laws.

The gap between rich and poor widened so drastically that the Senate tried limiting it with sumptuary laws.

They seem to have a way of dressing to show that their clothing cost considerable money without ever quite violating the sumptuary laws."

At the times of passing these sumptuary laws, the trade interests of women were protected by the legislature.

As with all sumptuary laws, the degree to which these laws were followed and enforced varied greatly.

The Enlightenment produced a backlash against sumptuary laws which asserted a stagnant social hierarchy.

Sumptuary laws issued by secular authorities aimed at keeping the main population dressed according to their "station" do not begin until the later 13th century.

They enacted sumptuary laws limiting hairstyle, dress, and accessories.

Sumptuary laws were often concerned with the size and decoration of graves and mausoleums.