Dress in middle age

        Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales were organized diversity of occupation, character and dress. The way in which stock characters are used to attempt to defeat family difficulties can be explored in She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith. The pair of young lovers CO-OPERATE together toward this end.         In old days and nowadays we dress nicely to impress others. In old days like Chaucerian and Restoration period, dress used to reflect their class. Better dress meant …showed first 75 words of 429 total…

…showed last 75 words of 429 total…social status of a people. People wore good clothes to impress other, and to show their class. People had prejudice about clothes. A person with plain clothes, they could not even think that person would be a rich. In the Goldsmith's story, it is clear. Ms. Hardcastle fools Marlow with two different clothes. By wearing normal plain dress she took a role on a house servant. Maybe these fancy dress thing could start from prejudice.