### Elizabethan sumptuary laws had a variety of purposes > In Elizabethan England, these laws attempted to restrict the sumptuousness of dress in order to curb extravagance, protect fortunes, and make clear the necessary and appropriate distinctions between levels of society. - ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01ffr2kjf4wx9patv4wma6fmsb)) - [[Elizabethan Sumptuary Statutes#Elizabethan sumptuary laws had a variety of purposes|View in Vault]]