In the Renaissance, there were laws called the Sumptuary Laws that allowed certain people to wear specific types of clothes. The lower class wore linen, which is a fabric made from flax seed fiber. The upper class wore nicer clothes made of silk, satin, and velvet. Cotton was made back in the Renaissance, but it was prohibited in the Elizabethan England to protect the wool industry. It was not until cotton farming in the United States and Eli Whitney’s invention of the cotton gin, that cotton used more frequently. Before the invention was created, all cotton harvesting and weaving were done by hand. The lower class had hardly any clothes, sometimes only one set. Servants wore uniforms called liveries, with their bosses colors or emblems which
