Under their rule, sumptuary laws forbade anybody else from wearing the veil, thereby making it the distinctive dress of the ruling class.
32.
Sumptuary laws were promulgated to restrain this vanity : against samite gloves in Bologna, 1294, against perfumed gloves in Rome, 1560.
33.
There were sumptuary laws : the free people of color were forbidden to wear the style of clothes favored by the wealthy white colonists.
34.
Augustan renewal of " mos maiorum " included the seating arrangements at theatres and games, sumptuary law, and family life.
35.
Unwritten race-based sumptuary laws, which would later become Jim Crow laws, became common social fixtures in Northern and Southern colonies.
36.
During the Heian Period, sumptuary laws restricted " murasaki "-dyed clothing to the Empress and her ladies in waiting.
37.
Finally, 26 " Clothing regulations " ( lost except for its first sentence ) and 27 " Measured regulations " lay down sumptuary rules.
38.
By the Byzantine period the colour had become associated with the emperors, and sumptuary laws restricted its use by anyone except the imperial household.
39.
Style would depend usually of social status and Elizabethans were bound to obey The Elizabethan Sumptuary Laws, which oversaw the style and materials worn.
40.
In 1767, she was arrested for wearing silk, which was normally banned for commoners and laborers under the Sumptuary laws of the time.
