Especially for hitatare, only the Ashikaga clan, military governors, and retainers of provincial lords granted yakata (an honorific title) by bakufu (Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun) were permitted to wear it, and they were allowed to wear the lacquered hat of samurai with hitatare, and this was the period when there were restrictions on the wearing of hitatare.
特に直垂は幕府より屋形を許された足利一門や守護や国人の家臣に限り、侍烏帽子と直垂の着用が許されており、直垂の着用に制限が出来たのもこの頃である。