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sumptuary (en)

(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)

Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change
by W. David Marx

Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change
by W. David Marx

Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change
by W. David Marx


Sumptuary laws codified which classes could wear which garments.

—p.37 Chapter Two: Conventions and Status Value (25) by W. David Marx
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