.:Fashion:.

"See'st thou not, I say, what a deformed thief this fashion is? How giddily 'a turns about all the hotbloods between fourteen and five-and-thirty?" (Borachio, in Much Ado About Nothing 3.3.130-32). This is a quote from the play we will be studing. I had found this on a web site talking about court fashion. The web site was; http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/society/fashion.html

However i have found the following about fashion in Elizabethan England;

• It was influenced by geometric shapes rather than the natural shape of the body


• Designed to give the impression of a small waist


• Men would sometimes wear girdles, this was to obtain the wasp waisted look