 Men and women alike dressed in their finest attire, including ornamented jackets, for visits to pagodas and other important events.Sumptuary laws called "yazagaing" dictated material consumption for Burmese subjects in the Konbaung kingdom, everything from the style of one's house to clothing appropriate for one’s social standing, from regulations concerning funerary ceremonies and the coffin to be used to usage of various speech forms based on rank and social status.In particular, sumptuary laws in the royal capital were exceedingly strict and the most elaborate in character.