In Elizabethan Society as in todays society, but to a greater degree, there was a definite divide between the so called upper and lower classes. Unlike todays society the class in which you were born was the class in which you would remain for the duration of your life, poor people were extremly poor and recieved no education and therefore had no knowledge of how to better their lives.
the wealthy upper classes however by contrast lived extremly extravagant lifestyles these were the Elizabethans that could afford to follow fashion trends, whereas some peasants could barely afford to survive let alone worry about their appearnce.
http://walternelson.com/dr/Elizabethan-peasantry
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