How to pronounce “sumptuary” in English

Yeah, so a classic sumptuary law was a law like in Ming China and certain parts of Europe where people were told only people of a certain class

in Japan, the sumptuary laws were designed to keep rich people who were engaged in commerce in their place.

And there's another-- it's not a sumptuary law, but there's another extreme example that I write about, which is the various bans on Indian cotton

Can you talk, what were those sumptuary laws?

We'll talk about waste and labor in a second, but first-- this is less interesting stories, you write about these sumptuary laws, fashion becoming a crime.

But the one that interested me the most was what you found in the Italian city-states, because most places where there were sumptuary laws, same thing