1. Scarlet was enormously prestigious: the thirteenth-century sumptuary laws of the kingdom of Castile and Leon restricted its use to the king.

2. The government used the sumptuary law of woven gold as the main methods of forbidding the expenditure of luxury in Song Dynasty.

3. However, these sumptuary Law were found not carried out very well in all Song Dynasty, and the facts of the luxury expenditure in each realm in Song Dynasty had proved this point.

4. Though quite often many workplaces still require formal dress, increasingly one can see that many companies only have very loose sumptuary guidelines.

5. State control of dress has long been studied as a facet of sumptuary laws, but this article deals only with those sumptuary regulations concerning "apparel" and therefore terms them "clothing laws.

6. And were readily allowed to individuals dignified by rank or wealth, even while sumptuary laws forbade these and similar extravagances to the plebeian order.