In 'Much Ado About Nothing' we learn of one who lies awake ten nights, 'carving the fashion of his doublet.' Also of one who is 'in the shape of two countries at once, as a German from the waist downwards all slops, and a Spaniard from the hip upward, no doublet.' Again of a gown: 'Cloth of gold, and cuts, and laced with silver set with pearls down sides, side sleeves, and skirts, round under borne with a bluish tinsel.' In 'As You Like It' one may show a careless desolation by ungartered hose, unbanded bonnet, unbuttoned sleeve, and untied shoe. 'The Taming of the Shrew' tells of serving-men: 'In their new fustian and their white jackets.... Let their blue coats be brushed, and their garters of an indifferent knit.' Also we have a cap 'moulded on a porringer.' 'Love's Labour's Lost' tells of: 'Your hat penthouse-like o'er the shop of your eyes; with your arms crossed on your thin belly doublet like a rabbit on a spit; or your hands in your pocket like a man after the old painting.' 'All's Well that Ends Well': 'Why dost thou garter up thy arms o' this fashion? Dost make a hose of thy sleeves?' 'Yonder's my lord your son with a patch of velvet on's face: whether there be a scar under't or no, the velvet knows.... There's a dozen of 'em, with delicate fine hats and most courteous feathers, which bow the head and nod at every man.' In 'Henry IV.,' Part II., there is an allusion to the blue dress of Beadles. Also: 'About the satin for my short cloak and slops.' 'The smooth-pates do now wear nothing but high shoes, and bunches of keys at their girdles.' 'To take notice how many pair of silk stockings thou hast, or to bear the inventory of thy shirts.' There are small and unimportant remarks upon dress in other plays, as dancing-shoes in 'Romeo and Juliet' and in 'Henry VIII.': 'The remains of fool and feather that they got in France.' 'Tennis and tall stockings, Short blistered breeches and those types of travel.' But in 'Hamlet' we find more allusions than in the rest. Hamlet is ever before us in his black: ''Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black.' 'Lord Hamlet, with his doublet all unbraced; No hat upon his head; his stockings fouled, Ungartered, and down-goes to his ancle; Pale as his shirt.' 'Your ladyship is nearer to heaven than when I saw you last, by the altitude of a chopine.'[D] [D] Shoes with very high soles. 'O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion into tatters.' 'With two provincial roses on my ragged shoes, My sea-gown scarfed about me.'