(adjective) relating to personal expenditures and especially to prevent extravagance and luxury / (adjective) designed to regulate extravagant expenditures or habits especially on moral or religious grounds / sumptuary law = law restricting consumption (notable during middle ages)
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