Cloth Act 1337

The Cloth Act 1337 was an Parliament |act] of the Parliament of England passed during the reign of Edward III.
The act legally obliged all English people to wear English-made cloth. It was part of a group of Sumptuary Laws intended to preserve class distinctions.

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Legacy

The act was extended to Ireland by Poynings' [Law 1495].
The provisions of the act providing "What clothes may be worn" were repealed by section 1 of the Repeal of Acts Concerning [Importation Act 1822].
The whole act was repealed for England and Wales by section 1 of, and the schedule to, the Statute Law [Revision Act 1863] and for Ireland by section 1 of, and the schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1872.