Cast your mind back to a time when what you wore determined your place in life and how people treated you.
Sure, modern people use clothing to signal what subcultures or cliques were part of, but back in Elizabethan times, well, they just did things differently, namely wearing massive collars and ruffs, donning the large ornate collars was initially a sign of aristocracy.
But with that privilege came discomfort.
The collars in question often referred to as ruffs, didn't allow for ease of movement.
Sort of like an early Batman costume.
It probably didn't come up that often among the big collar crowd, but manual labor wasn't possible when wearing the garment, which they probably used as an out.
Sorry, Prince Frederick, I'd love to help you move, but it's this ruff.
You see, even the wealthiest men and women had difficulty eating while wearing ruffs, often adopting extremely long eating utensils in social dining situations.
Because when your color is too big to reach the table, the obvious solution is longer spoons.
But for ruff wears, the impracticality was a feature, not a bug.
