Sumptuary law

As sumptuary laws magisterial arrangements are referred to, grant the various stalls of different luxury. In particular, this is the so-called dress codes. Lose yourself in Germany in the age of absolutism with the extinction of urban culture of its own in the early 18th century, and finally be meaningless with the lifting of legal barriers between the various middle classes.

Herders Conversations -Lexikon of 1854 writes:

Charlemagne issued in the year 808 a sumptuary law, which dictated how much each state was allowed to spend for his clothes.

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• Social structure