Fashion Rules!: A Closer Look at Clothing in the Middle Ages

by Gail Skroback Hennessey and Tracy Sabin

During the Middle Ages, your position in life was based on birth. This position would follow you throughout your life. To make it easy for others to know your social class, rules about what you could wear--or not wear--were created. Such rules, called sumptuary laws, determined colors of clothing, types of fabric and trims, length of garments, types of sleeves, and types of furs. The laws also regulated shoe lengths and height, hat height, types...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1634409051
• ISBN13: 9781634409056
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Red Chair Press
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 11.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7