
Henry VIII's Billionaire Wardrobe
Not Just the Tudors
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Tudor Male Dress
Clothes are about power, and they are about politics, and they aren't frivolous. So we probably ought to start by thinking about what a war in the tudor period would have been like. And immediately, as i say that, i'm aware that at one end of thetudor period is very different from the other. So let's focus down on henry theighth's reign, which is 15 o nine, 15 forty seven. Think about what did a man's outfit consist of. In the early tudorperiod, the main garment that they would have put on first in the morning would have been their shirt. For someone of relatively high status, that would
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