#sumptuarylaws

[tyneoconnell]

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THE ORIGINS OF THE BRITISH TREND FOR EXPRESSING OURSELVES THROUGH FASHION for more of the video see https://bit.ly/2LW70el The British trend for using Fashion as a means of self expression - & Birth of The British #Eccentric began on 24th March 1604 when King James I Declared his commitment to the #Baroque by his abolition of the ancient #SumptuaryLaws as his first Parliamentary Act which set in motion the most radical changes in British Society in history & Ultimately shaped our character. #Liberating the historic restrictions on the population to wear what they wanted when they wanted, Triggered a surge in flamboyance, sartorial experimentation & #crossdressing as people were free - regardless of rank or class - to wear what they wanted. In ending Sumptuary Laws, Mary Queen of Scots’ son was overturning centuries of a class system in place since the 9thC Sumptuary Laws had stood as a reassuring means to keep every man & woman across Europe dressed according to class & #gender Preventing people dressing like their betters or giving themselves ideas above their station. #QueenElizabethI had tightened Sumptuary Laws further, preventing trade in foreign goods. In doing away with Sumptuary Laws, JamesI shocked the Monarch’s across Europe, with the French King Henry IV & others declaring the #Stuart #King “the wisest fool in Christendom.” Between 1603-1642 the Stuart monarchs of Britain & their #Medici wives & relatives, enthusiastic embrace of the new ideas & freedoms of the Baroque Era & the Cultural & scientific revolution led by women, ultimately ignited the #CivilWar & #Cromwell failed #Puritan #Military #Dictatorship. The British Eccentric emerged as the #Phoenix from the ashes of this ethical war between the Puritan’s determination to enforce the rigid moral & cultural austerity & conformity of the Old Testament & the Stuart Monarchy’s enthusiast embrace of the freedoms & opportunities of the Baroque, which ushered in our Long-standing love of expressing our ideals through fashion & seeing beyond what is there & daring to imagine what could be.... @daniellismore @velveteccentric more of this in my book! Birth of the British Eccentric xxx (at Mayfair)

[artanissnow]

The peasant is wearing purple!!! Off with her head!! 🤣 Sumptuary laws were pretty strict through history and covered a variety of different things. Like colors and how long your shoes could be. Fascinating stuff! #thedegreelesshistorian #degreelesshistorian #Peasant #purple #sumptuarylaws Follow my shop @glamorouslysteph on the @shop.LTK app to shop this post and get my exclusive app-only content! #liketkit @shop.ltk https://liketk.it/40Omg https://www.instagram.com/p/CoIbXRvOdcK/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[barnowlbothydornoch]

In 1571, Elizabeth I and parliament passed legislation that required all males, excepting noblemen, over the age of six to wear a #woollen #cap on Sundays and holidays, on pain of a fine. In those days, the wool trade was the foundation of the English economy, and the Tudors were determined to protect it. This was a time when cheap European hats were effecting the mainstay wool trade and the #bakerboycap cap, made from off cuts of material - came to be born. #sumptuarylaws laws are laws that try to regulate consumption. Black's Law Dictionary defines them as "Laws made for the purpose of restraining luxury or extravagance, particularly against inordinate expenditures for apparel, food, furniture, etc. Historically, they were intended to regulate and reinforce social hierarchies and morals through restrictions on clothing, food, and luxury expenditures, often depending on a person's social rank.This law although hard to enforce was around until the 17th century. Sorry got side tracked for a moment drooling over the chiselled cheekbones of #cillianmurphy Murphy ....sighh........where was I....... A peerless classic....It has the same overall shape and stiff peak as a flat cap, but the body of the cap is rounder, fuller, and paneled with a button on top. Handcrafted by Karen Livingstone based in #Tain, #Scottish Highlands , her unisex baker boy caps are versatile must have accessory, perfect for any occasion. Manufactured from the finest quality tweed and wool herringbones - £30 **** NOW MADE TO ORDER or a limited stock*** just tell us your size and colour of tweeds. https://www.barnowlbothy.com/Store/#!/Caddie-or-Baker-Boy-Hat-by-Karen-Livingstone/p/139582590 https://www.instagram.com/p/CPFkLm7rMQT/?utm_medium=tumblr

[tyneoconnell]

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The roots of @londonfashionweek date back to 1604 when the openly gay Monarch, #KingJamesI liberated people to wear what they wanted regardless of #class or gender by abolishing the ancient #SumptuaryLaws which had kept people in “their place” by dictating the #colours #silhouettes & #textiles they could wear. Prior to 1604 #Fashion had been the preserve of the #aristocracy Fashion became a leading #art form of the #Baroque & a means of expressing individuality ⚜️By 1625 25% of #londoners were crossdressing representing the flourishing new ideas like gender-mobility and a wider taste for flamboyance across the nation. At the forefront of fashion were the Women & LGBTQ Celebrity Eccentrics who Spearheaded the cultural & scientific revolution ⚜️Their bold ideas were frequently expressed in their daring use of fashion ⚜️But where are the statues & memorials to these once Celebrated #women & #LGBTQs# who transformed Britain from a #medieval backwater into the hub of The Modern Age & continued to be honoured until Victorian historians deliberately ghosted them to create a Straight Male narrative As a historian I’m dedicated to I revive these ghosted women and LGBTQs of history - meanwhile the magnificent & #innovative designers & #sartorial poetry of @londonfashionweek continues to #celebrate #fashionasart expressing bold new ideas @fashionscout @quarrydolls @joshuakanebespoke @malanbreton @pamhoggfashion @ellenvonunwerth @hilaryalexanderobe @daniellismore @velveteccentric @muirvidler (at Mayfair) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7bi1DNAGO5/?igshid=118hqp44tl12f

[tyneoconnell]

@therealpandemonia & #snowball extolling #fashionasart & the joy of #puppies both legacies of the Stuart Era 1603-1689 ⚜️Fashion as an Artform began in 1604 with the abolition of #sumptuarylaws in by histories first openly #gay king JamesI - igniting a trend for Fashion As Art - & #dogs & #horses have been loved as companions & sentient beings following the 1655 #antivivisection essays of #MargaretCavendish “Mother of The Scientific Revolution” ⚜️ Both Fashion As Art & our love of dogs & all things equestrian remain as quintessentially #British & #Irish as #tea as an occasion! #fashionasart (at The National Liberal Club) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3Mw5FpAfWs/?igshid=xpt3gp13k237

[tyneoconnell]

#eccentrics have they’re own way of being! declares @daniellismore as we lay in our #Mayfair bed #salon discussing #eccentricity - The First Eccentrics - or as Daniel Lismore sums them up “the real eccentrics” burst forth with the end of Britain’s #SumptuaryLaws & #Censorship between 1604-1642 which enabled Eccentric men and women of all classes to define themselves sartorially & through their ideas & art beyond the barriers of gender class and religion. Ultimately these liberties resulted in the Civil War in 1642 when #KingCharlesI refused the demands by #Puritans to abolish these freedoms as he saw them as essential to safeguard the cultural & scientific revolution of the #baroque against the Puritans demands for cultural austerity & Puritan morality. In the end he laid down his life to preserve these liberties & Queen Henrietta-Marie (heavily pregnant) & with her children including CharlesII fled to the court-of her nephew the Sun King in #Versailles ... where they continued to host eccentric salons until their triumphant return in the Restoration of 1660 when Charles II resumed the #Stuart #Medici Court (at Mayfair)