Sumptuary

Our Noble English Patriarchs as well as Patriots, were so sensible of this Evil, that they made several excellent Laws, commonly called Sumptuary, to Forbid, at least Limit the Pride of the People; which because the Execution of them would be our Interest and Honor, their Neglect must be our just Reproach and Loss.

Part II. Of the Interest of the Publick in our Estates 1909

Our Noble English Patriarchs as well as Patriots, were so sensible of this Evil, that they made several excellent Laws, commonly called Sumptuary, to Forbid, at least Limit the Pride of the People; which because the Execution of them would be our Interest and Honor, their Neglect must be our just Reproach and Loss.

Some Fruits of Solitude 1693

Sumptuary laws were aimed at consumption of food and clothing.

Archive 2009-02-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

The invention of the letter of credit was actually commended as something "impossible for a theologian to understand," while considerable energy was devoted to finding loopholes in the Sumptuary Laws which laid down restrictions on such perceived luxuries as patterned cloth, or the number of buttons a coat might have.

For the Love of Money Andrew McKie 2011

Color has always been symbolic, and very culturally driven: from the Victorian construct of the meaning of roses, to the colors people have been allowed to wear (as in the Sumptuary Laws of Elizabethan England and earlier), to the colors worn traditionally for rituals such as marriage and mourning.

Archive 2009-05-01 Heather McDougal 2009

Sumptuary laws always have trouble with enforcement.

Archive 2009-02-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

Color has always been symbolic, and very culturally driven: from the Victorian construct of the meaning of roses, to the colors people have been allowed to wear (as in the Sumptuary Laws of Elizabethan England and earlier), to the colors worn traditionally for rituals such as marriage and mourning.

Drunk On Color Heather McDougal 2009

Sumptuary laws to assuage wealthy vanity were enacted in the Middle Ages, declaring who might and might not wear the luxurious trappings of the peerage, including the color royal purple, and the latest in Paris fashion in order to distinguish the "better" people not only from the poor, but the merchant classes.

pro invidia 2009

Sumptuary laws in general and the ideological justifications for such laws are beyond the scope of this paper, the purpose of which is two-fold.

Two from Cox: Sumptuary Laws and Sovereignty Mary L. Dudziak 2008

Sumptuary laws in general and the ideological justifications for such laws are beyond the scope of this paper, the purpose of which is two-fold.

Archive 2008-06-01 Dan Ernst 2008