The Elizabethan Fashion... Something...

Elizabeth Restricts Fashion

     Our majesty, the Queen, has decreed that effective this 15 June 1574- I give up, nope, I suck at writing in Elizabethan style, I'll just write in present everyday speak so you guys can actually understand me. Ok? Ok. So back in the times of you-know-who as of recent years, Queen Elizabeth passed a few laws called the "Statues of Apparel" which limited what you can wear because apparently people think that wearing cool looking stuff would elevate you to a higher class. (Well, it's actually a bit more complicated than that, but its one of the few reasons.) So she decided to impose restrictions on what the heck you can wear. 

     So one of the major things that the Statues of Apparel limited in terms of what you can wear is anything the color of purple. Because, according to TvTropes, Purple is Powerful purple was the color that was to distinguish the royal family. Only the royal family could wear purple to allow people to distinguish them from other lower forms of nobility.

     Quite interesting to note about the style of the upper class is the quite frankly odd fashion style of men, I mean just look at this dude:

     At the time, the popular fashion for Elizabethan Era Men were "puffy pants or breeches that ended at the knee." I mean, seriously, puffy pants. (Keep in mind also that the dude in that upper picture is wearing a skirt. Just saying)

     Thankfully, the lower class are far more sensibly dressed, being generally poor and not having money to afford for more important things, the lower class tend to avoid extravagant outfits.

See? Much less extravagant... I think

     Anyways, I've ran out of stuff to say about Elizabethan current fashion so I'm just gonna wrap it up here.

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     My drawing is NOT as you might presume, somebody falling from a cliff while being impaled by a something, its ACTUALLY a person climbing UP a cliff to a tree with red (Red for apples) letters saying "Change". Now then, in my book memoir: The Wild Truth by Carine McCandless, Carine reiterates many times in the second half of the book about the concept of change and the receptiveness of the people subject to it. She described change as something that essentially comes only when people TRULY want to change. I depicted this through a cliff with a tree, symbolizing a new life or a change for a better, at the top. On the side of the cliff, there's a rope climber trying to reach change, symbolizing how change doesn't just "come" to somebody like gift at your Christmas(?) doorstep. Instead, it shows how change is actually something that you must truly want and are willing to work for it in order for it to happen.

     In my book Carine observes this "behavior" of change multiple times, but one of the most notable times she talks about this is where she talks about her husband, Fish, and how he became a meth addict and how she ended up arguing with him about it, she recalls how "Fish pointed out our extreme differences on the matter at hand. I was against any drug use, even the occasional pot smoking. He said that my standards were tough to live up to." (McCandless 167) She then points out that she was always like that and how she doesn't understand why Fish would then marry her. In response, Fish replies how he "'thought you would fix me.'"(McCandless 167), McCandless recalls how Fish's response made her "feel like I'd been cheated. I didn't enter into our marriage with the intention of changing him... Besides, I already knew that change doesn't come to someone who doesn't really want it." (McCandless 167)

     Change is not something that will come all because you become wishy washy for it. Change is something that you have to work for, something that you'll inevitably somehow suffer (Pessimism all the way) while trying to bring about change, but change is something that could be considered a crucial instrument for survival. Change is what keeps us human as a whole and not some mindless machines operating on some schedule.

     But enough philosophy about change today, you people probably have something better to do than read me ramble about change, (Unless you're grading this paper thingymabob, sorry!) so go on, find something better to do then.