sumptuary in English

adjective
1
relating to or denoting laws that limit private expenditure on food and personal items.
I call for legislating a mandatory sumptuary code strictly limiting persons licensed to wear them.

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1. 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.

2. These sumptuary laws proved unenforceable, but the wider labour laws continued to be firmly applied.

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

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