lower class garments, loose, baggy - Costume Myths: Busted

Woodcut of a Workman

Myth: Men's' clothing should fit like today's garments, loose, baggy and hang off the hips.

Lower classes may be at waist like the nobility, or lower classes may have lower line of waist, but it is still fitted to the body.

Woodcut of the Keeper of the Hounds, by G. Tuberville, 1575.