Who made the costumes Shakespeare's?

Answer 1

They were castoffs from the nobility--clothes which had become out of fashion or worn.

Answer 2

All Elizabethan theatrical companies got their fancy costumes from the clothes nobles didn't want because they were out of style or worn. They had people (often women, who were involved in the theatre in this way) to make costumes for servants or other less elevated folks.

Answer 3

The company owned costumes and reused them as much as possible. Sometimes they had to have a new costume made. It's thought actors left each other costumes in their wills. Affluent people sometimes left clothing to their servants in wills. There were laws governing what people of different status could wear, so these low status people could not wear them cloths left them and sometimes sold them to actors.

Answer 4

The costumes for royalty or members of the aristocracy were castoffs from rich people. The other costumes they had to make or adapt from everyday clothes. A contemporary drawing of actors in the play Titus Andronicus suggests that the ancient Roman costumes looked suspiciously like everyday Elizabethan English wear.

Answer 5

They were castoffs from the nobility--clothes which had become out of fashion or worn.

Answer 6

Since they were clothes, mostly cloth. Leather or fur sometimes as well. Suits of armour were made of metal, and we know from the Peacham drawing that they wore helmets at least on stage.