The Pristine white colour was difficult and expensive to produce and therefore wornby the wealthy. Only those who could keep their clothes clean, meaning they had servants, would wear the pristine white colour. The symbolic meaning of the colour white was purity and virtue, which is why Queen Elizabeth was famously pictured in a white gown conveying a visual image of the 'Virgin Queen'. Like gold, white also has a Biblical meaning for holiness and is the Christian colour for all high Holy Days and festival days of the Church Year, especially the seasons of Christmas and Easter. The colour white is also used for baptism, marriage, ordination, and dedications which links back to white being associated with purity and virtue. The people who were allowed to wear the colour white during the Elizabethan era, as decreed by the English Sumptuary Laws, were lower and upper classes.
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