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Renaissance Lower-class women
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lower-class women
roles and responsibilities
lower-class women
A typical Day
- lower class housewives were expected to do household chores such as washing items like clothes and utensils, and preparing food
- cleaning the house in general was difficult due to the floors of most lower class homes being dirt
- clothes were usually taken to a near by body of water to be washed due to the lack of irrigation
- dishes and utensils were wooden, making them hard to clean
- preparing food was usually not a problem for the primary dish for lower class families at the time was simply pottage with oats, vegeatbles and sometimes meat
-Women would be in charge of poultry and dairy
-Women would spin wool and flax into thread to make cloth
- Lower-Class family would grow their own food and all of their household items.
Women would cook and clean in their household
Fact:
most of the peasants lived in a small rural community
rural: characteristic of a population
Lower-class women
Attire
- Hair covered by age 5
Clothing consists mainly of:
- Headcovering
- Smock
- Women's dress
- Apron & Belt
Lower class women were not allowed to wear:
- bright colors (like royal purple or turquoise)
- high-end fabrics (silk or satin)
- extravagant trims
- anything out of line with
normal class dress
Roles and Responsibilities
Cont.
headcovering
partlet
smock
This is an example of what lower class women's attire would resemble.
apron
women's dress
- lower class women who were not housewives had to provide for themselves
- most women usually become housemaids or became an apprentice under a master to of a certain skill
- for most women, being an apprentice was the only way for them to get an education