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.

from The Mini Page by Betty Debnam 0 1999 The Mini Page Publishing Company Inc.

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

from The Mini Page by Betty Debnam Cl1999 The Mini Page Publishing Company Inc.

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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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