living on the same Manhattan island, just blocks south, but they in sumptuary garb, practicing traditions from centuries past

the passing of trade and sumptuary laws that would cause commodities that were common one day to become scarce the next and vice versa

Sumptuary laws codified which classes could wear which garments.

badly designed American sportswear made by East Asian factory workers is the uniform of the urban poor, a surer class marker than anything mandated by Medieval sumptuary laws.