Conversely, social parvenus who took on the external trappings of the noble classes ( such as the wearing of a sword ) were severely criticised, sometimes by legal action ( laws concerning sumptuous clothing worn by the bourgeois existed since the Middle Ages ).

Conversely, social parvenus who took on the external trappings of the noble classes ( such as the wearing of a sword ) were severely criticised, sometimes by legal action ; laws on sumptuous clothing worn by bourgeois existed since the Middle Ages.

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