Getting dressed in Shakespeare's time - Winston-Salem/Forsyth County ...
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Getting dressed in Shakespeare's time
The poorer people dressed in simpler clothes. However, if you could afford it, you would wear very fancy clothes indeed. People judged you by what you wore. Many people went into debt trying to impress others.
Both boys and girls wore long dresses until they could go to the bathroom by themselves. Then they started dressing in mini versions of what the adults wore.
Men
When to tip your hat and to whom
were important manners of the day.
Men wore ruffs, too.
People also wore
whisks, or flat, starched
collars that were held up
in the back.
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Capes were usually the most expensive ~
part of a man's clothing.
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Doublets were jackets worn over
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waistcoats. They were often padded.
Trunk hose stuffed with rags and old
papers covered the upper thighs.
Ruffs were worn by both men and
women. They were usually made of
Women
Chemises were long shirts that were
also worn to bed as a night shirt.
starched linen. They became so big that
Stomachers were V-shaped inserts
Queen Elizabeth passed a law limiting
that covered the bodice.
their size. Wearing them was not much
fun. They scratched, and drooped wh~n I
wet.
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Women wanted to have small waists. To create this effect, they pinched in their
Wings hid the ties that connected the
waists and wore wide skirts.
sleeves to the waistcoat.
WBodices were corsets made of bones or stiff reeds. They made the waist and ribcage look smaller.
French rolls were padded
Freneh roII rolls worn around the waist.
Farthingales were underskirts with
bone or wood hoops.
Farthingale
The overskirt had a slit in the front. It often
Waistcoats were blouses with laces
matched the waistcoat.
that held up a petticoat.
Platform shoes raised up the wearers
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so dress hems would not get muddy. ---~~I.
Underskirts or petticoats were worn over a
chemise. Several were worn in the winter for warmth.
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Mini Spy ...
Mini Spy and her friends are dressing up in the kind of clothes worn during Shakespeare's time. See if you can find:
? letter A ? sword ? toothbrush ? apple ? strawberry ? word MINI ? elephant ? pumpkin ? snake ? chicken ? number 3 ? number 7 ? tooth ? ladder ? letter B ? ice cream cone ? birthday cake ? letter V
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SHAKESPEARE'S TI M E TRY 'N FIND
Words that remind us of Shakespeare's time are hidden in the
block below. Some words are hidden backward or diagonally.
See if you can find: ELIZABETH, FANCY, DRESS, CAPE,
COLONISTS, PERFORM, STAGE, ACTORS, COSTUMES,
CLOTHES, THEATER, PLAY, PROPS, GLOBE, AUDIENCE,
RUFF, POOR, RICH.
F S E H T 0 L C SSE R D P S
A BKWFTHEA T E R S R T
N P C L EPA C Z P OOROA
C D E A U DIE N C E M B P G
Y E Q R ELI Z A B E T H S E
R P R G FCOLON 1ST S R
H U L I SOCOS T U M E S C
I U F A C D R J S ROTCAQ
J V C F Y H R M K SEBOLG
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