In an act of Parliament, she stated that everyone except for ‘maids, ladies, gentlewomen, noble personages, and every Lord, knight and gentleman of twenty marks land’ should have to wear on Sundays a ‘Cap of Wool knit, thicked and dressed in England, made within this Realm, and only dressed and finished by some of the Trade of Cappers, upon pain to forfeit for every Day of not wearing three Shillings four Pence’.7 Since they were already poor, this could mean prison for non-payment. Essentially, in the 16th century we had the literal fashion police,
