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The Body Clothed
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The Body Clothed
The Dress of the People
In your groups have a think about the following - use google to help.
- What items of clothing did people own?
- What practical purposes did clothes serve?
- How were the clothes of the rich and the poor different?
Sumptuary Laws
If you would like to know more about the laws that governed what you could wear in early modern England you can follow these links:
https://shakespeareandbeyond.folger.edu/2017/09/08/sumptuary-laws-rules-dressing-shakespeare-england/
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3112091
Primary Source Analysis
Select an image from the top row and one image from the bottom row. Compare and contrast the images.
How does the clothing display the wealth of those represented?
Shaping Identity
Clothing was a visual marker and identifier to other people showing them what your identity was.
(there are some images added here to help you think of examples)
What items of clothing distinguished different occupations and professions?
Professional Identities
Religious identity
Using Anne Laurence 'Women, Godliness, & Appearance.
- How did clothing reflect religious identity? (or what restrictions did religion place on how the body was dressed?
Religious Identity
Primary Source Analysis
Read Philip Stubbes, The Anaomty of Abuses.
What does this pamphlet by a strict Puritan tell us about religious attitudes towards clothing and bodily adornment?
Clothing & Deception
You have now seen the various ways in which clothing shaped, controlled, and represented identity.
You will have started to see from this that clothing also prompted concerns and anxieties about the potential to reshape/misrepresnt the body. In essence to present an identity they had no right to
More than this though there were underlying concerns that clothing could control and reshape the body underneath.
Gender Identity
Primary Source Analysis
Analyse the image of Moll Cutpurse (Mary Frith)
- What does the image suggest about gender identity and clothing?
(You can draw on Laurence and on Philip Stubbes here as well if you like)
Gender Identity
You can find out more about Moll Cutpurse here
https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/Moll-Frith/
David Cressy
Read David Cressy's article ' Gender Trouble and Cross Dressing'
How does Cressy's work complicate our understanding of how clothing created anxieties about gender?
Primary Source Analysis
Analyse the two sources that looks at prostitutes clothing and adornment
This image of a Venetian Courtesan from the 16th century
and
The extract from the Whore's Rhetorick (which you have looked at before in old age week)
What do thes source tell us about bodies and sexuality - and concerns about clothing and sin?