During the Elizabethan era in England from 1560 to 1603:
- Queen Elizabeth I ruled for 44 years as the Virgin Queen and never married, setting fashion trends like red curly wigs and purple clothing signifying royalty.
- Fashion trends included men having short hair and women wearing elaborate wired frames to style their long hair into heart shapes along with high collars inspired by Spanish fashion.
- Punishments were harsh, including amputation, torture, public whipping and parading of gossipy women in spiked metal masks called branks.
During the Elizabethan era in England from 1560 to 1603:
- Queen Elizabeth I ruled for 44 years as the Virgin Queen and never married, setting fashion trends like red curly wigs and purple clothing signifying royalty.
- Fashion trends included men having short hair and women wearing elaborate wired frames to style their long hair into heart shapes along with high collars inspired by Spanish fashion.
- Punishments were harsh, including amputation, torture, public whipping and parading of gossipy women in spiked metal masks called branks.
During the Elizabethan era in England from 1560 to 1603:
- Queen Elizabeth I ruled for 44 years as the Virgin Queen and never married, setting fashion trends like red curly wigs and purple clothing signifying royalty.
- Fashion trends included men having short hair and women wearing elaborate wired frames to style their long hair into heart shapes along with high collars inspired by Spanish fashion.
- Punishments were harsh, including amputation, torture, public whipping and parading of gossipy women in spiked metal masks called branks.
Considered to be Men wore their hair Purple clothing was a sign
Englands Golden Age short, while women of royalty.
Ruled for 44 years During the Elizabethan combed their long hair Never married. Huge deal era, men and women at the time. upwards where it was fixed with a wire frame wore very high collars, Nicknamed the Virgin Queen that formed a heart fashioned after Spanish couture.
Queen Fashion in the Elizabethan Fashion
Women strove to imitate her curly red hair, using different
Elizabethan Era recipes for bleaching their
hair. Some of these recipes 1560-1603 used strange elements,
Entertainmen Punishments The Plague Hygiene
Feasts Women who gossiped too much Also known as the Black Death Baths were not common Wiped out 2/3 of people due to the amount of work Festivals were put put in a brank, paraded to fill a tub. Symptoms: sores that bleed and around town, and whipped. Toilets consisted of Dancing turn black Chamber Pots Amputation Killed in 4-7 days Waste disposed in Jousts Torture Transferred by fleas cesspools and dung Death Hunting Thought disease was heaps. Sometimes even spread by bad smells just out the window into Plays the streets
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