Illustration captions in {curly brackets} have been added by the transcriber for the convenience of the reader. Hyphenation has been made consistent. Minor errors in punctuation have been corrected. The following items were noted by the transcriber: Page 361--the text reads, "Another thing the women did was to cut from their bodices all the little strips but the in the middle of the back, ..." which seems to be missing the word 'one' between 'the' and 'in'. It has been added in this etext. Page 442--the word CUROSY may be an error for CURSORY, or it may be the pen-name of the quoted writer. However, as the transcriber was unable to confirm either way, it has been preserved as printed. Archaic spelling is preserved as printed. Variable spelling has been made consistent where there was a prevalence of one form over the other, and typographic errors have been repaired, as follows: Page 38 (plate facing)--whimple amended to wimple--"She has a wimple in her hands which she may wind about her head." Page 52 (plate facing)--whimple amended to wimple--"There is a chin-band to be seen passing under the wimple; ..." Page 54--Fontevfaud amended to Fontevraud--"The effigy of the Queen at Fontevraud shows her dress ..." Page 73--wode amended to woad--"... by staining themselves blue with woad and yellow with ochre, ..." Page 74 (plate facing)--whimple amended to wimple--"... a plain cloak, a plain gown, and a wimple over the head." Page 82--kaleidscope amended to kaleidoscope--"... like the symmetrical accidents of the kaleidoscope, ..." Page 87--head-hankerchief amended to head-handkerchief--"... as was the gown and head-handkerchief of his wife." Page 92--repeated 'new' deleted--"... for, although men followed the new mode, ladies adhered to their earlier fashions." Page 94--tieing amended to tying--"Every quaint thought and invention for tying up this liripipe was used: ..." Page 96--tow amended to two--"Then there were two distinct forms of cape: ..." Page 123--Ploughman amended to Plowman--"... William Langland, or Piers the Plowman." Page 142--Louttrell amended to Loutrell--"... together with the artist of the Loutrell Psalter, ..." Page 142--repeated 'British' removed--"... are cheap to obtain and the British Museum is free to all." Page 154--waistcoast amended to waistcoat--"Over his tunic he wears a quilted waistcoat, ..." Page 189--excresences amended to excrescences--"... surmounted by minarets, towers, horns, excrescences of every shape ..." Page 247--Katharine amended to Katherine--"Married, 1509, Katherine of Aragon; ..." and "... 1540, Katherine Howard; ..." Page 259--martin amended to marten--"... to wear marten or velvet trimming you must be worth over two hundred marks a year."