Elizabethan Fashion and Theatre

Fashion and Clothing Elizabethan clothing was also part of the social order. The well-off

upper class wore elegant and luxurious clothing that was made of expensive velvet,

silk and satin, while peasants wore simple materials such as cotton, wool and leather.

The brightest colours were only available to the upper class because dyes were costly.

Elizabethan Theatre Culturally, this was the era of the English Renaissance, which had its

most magnificent expression in a very popular medium at the time - the theatre.,

The plays written by Elizabethan playwrights, such as William Shakespeare, were in great demand.

The most famous playhouse was the Globe (1599), built by the company in which