Expense Act

Extract of those in annis 1667. and 1680. Fürstl. Dress regulations

Authoritative arrangements that grant different levels of luxury to different levels are referred to as expenditure laws . In particular, these are the so-called dress codes . They get lost in Germany in the period of absolutism with the extinction of the urban culture in the early 18th century and become irrelevant with the lifting of the legal barriers between the various bourgeois classes.

In Herder's Conversations Lexicon of 1854 it says:

“ Expenditure laws, luxury laws should dictate the limits for individuals or estates as to how far they can go in their expenses for clothing, home furnishings, meals, family celebrations, etc .; in antiquity and through the Middle Ages down to the modern age consistently enacted and handled, they have been almost universally eliminated by the new legislation ”.

In 808, Charlemagne passed an expenditure law that stipulated how much each stand was allowed to spend on its clothing.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dr. Eva Nienholdt, Berlin: Fur in dress code. In: The fur trade. Volume XVI New Series, 1965, Issue 2, p. 70
2. ^ Herder's Conversations Lexicon. Freiburg im Breisgau 1854, Volume 1, p. 329. Permalink: http://www.zeno.org/nid/20003215091