Chats on CostumeRhead, G. Woolliscroft (George Woolliscroft)
History
Chats on Costume
Rhead, G. Woolliscroft (George Woolliscroft)
Clothing and dress
Paris, Matthew, description of marriage of Alexander III. of Scotland, 96
Pattens, 290-292
Pegtops, 54;
Dundreary's, 275
Peplum of the Greeks, 85, 88
Pepys, references to dress, 102-104, 142-144, 255
Periwig, first appearance of in history, 255;
proportions of, during the reign of Charles II., 255
Petticoat breeches, 128-130
---- inflation, era of, 138
Picadil, 189-192
Piccadilly, 190;
fringe, 275
Piers Plowman, description of Meed (Bribery), 212
Pilche, 98-100
Pole, Edmund de la, letter to, 46
Pot-hat, examples of in past art, 25
Puffing, 117
Punch, Mr., fragments of a love-song, 74;
satire of crinoline, 172-176;
crinoletta, 176;
short side-whiskers, 276;
warning to ladies riding in crinolines, 170
"Roman de la Rose," satire on dress, 38;
dress of Mirth, 53;
horned head-dresses, 213
Roxburghe ballads, 40, 252, 255, 283
Ruff, invention of, 183;
extravagances of, 187;
various kinds of, 192;
disappearance of, 194
Ruffle, 183-184
St. Bernard, admonition of his sister, 36
Salisbury, Lord, remarks on modern costume, 56
Sandal, Greek, 283;
of Italian peasantry, 286;
modern, 301
Shoe roses, 296
Shoes, early British, 286;
Anglo-Saxon, 288;
pointed toed, 289-291;
broad toed, 294-296
Slashings, 117-118
Sleeves, serrated, 72;
development of, 112-113;
tight, 112;
cut work of, 112;
"pokys," 112
"Spencer" jacket, 137
Starching, 184
Stow, reference to ruffs, 187
Strutt, 73
Stubbes, "Anatomy of Abuses," feminine habit of aping masculine dress, 42;
peascod bellied doublets, 124;
ruffs, 180, 186, 188;
praise of barbers, 250;
moustachios, 272
Sumptuary laws, principal Acts, 28-36, 290
Surcoat, Anglo-Saxon period, 76;
thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, 74
_Tailor and Cutter_, hints of impending changes in men's attire, 56
Tailors, Latin song upon the, 92
"Tale of Beryn," the, quotation from, 89
Toga, plan of, 86;
dimensions of, 88
Trouser stretcher, 56
Trousers, their antiquity, 25;
the apparent eternity of, 54;
development of, 54;
inconveniences of, 56;
Frankish, 69;
Norman, 114
Trunk hose, bombasting of, 118, 122;
of period of James I., 126
Tudor period, magnificence of dress of, 140
Tunic, the, 61-80;
primitive form of, 61;
Egyptian, 63;
Greek, 64;
child's tunic, Egyptian, 64;
plan of, 66;
super-tunic, 66;
Lacedemonian girls', 67;
Charlemagne's, 69;
military, 77
Turban, 209
Uses of clothing, the, 20-24
Veddas of Ceylon, 20
Weaving, silk, in France and England, 52
Whisk, 188-189
Whiskers, Dundreary and mutton chop, 274;
short side, 276
Wigs, Egyptian, 254;
first appearance in England, 255;
cost of when first worn, 256;
different shapes of, 256;
Lord Ellenborough's, 258
William III., long-skirted coats, 104
Wimple, 183, 211
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UNWIN BROTHERS, LIMITED, WOKING AND LONDON
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