The Heritage of Dress: Being Notes on the History and Evolution of ClothesWebb, Wilfred Mark
History
The Heritage of Dress: Being Notes on the History and Evolution of Clothes
Webb, Wilfred Mark
Clothing and dress; Clothing and dress -- History
Cameron Erracht tartan, 242
-- tartan, 242
Canaries, yellow, 303
Cane of drill sergeant, 241
Canes, be-ribboned, 124
-- tasselled, 125
Cannibalism, probable origin of, 337
Canterbury Cathedral, shield, helmet, and surcoat of Black Prince
in, 87, =88=, =89=
Cantlie, Dr., on short jackets, 356
-- -- -- the effect of insufficient clothing, 355, =357=
-- -- -- -- use of belts, 356
Cap, college, 47, 169, 212, =214=
-- Hungarian, 238
-- judge's sentence, 217
-- line of Lancers, 241
-- livery, 146
-- of Beefeaters, 168
-- -- dignity, ecclesiastical, 213
-- -- housemaid, 149
-- -- Hungarian peasant, 59, =59=
-- -- nuns, 201, =203=, 204
-- -- the Lancers, a Polish head-dress, 239
-- Scotch, streamers of, 53, =54=
-- statute, 168, 348
-- Tudor flat, 214
Cape, combined with hood, =156=, 157
Caps not to be worn by married women, 350
Cards, playing, show Tudor dresses, 231
Carolines, haircombs of West, 118
Cases of brass for waiters' buttons, 144
Cassock, 200
-- of Benedictines, 198
-- once generally worn, 186
Casula, forerunner of the chasuble, 192
Cater cap, 212
Cattle, hornless, 303
Cavalryman, modern, compared with Cromwell's Ironsides, 237, =237=
Cave men, drawings of, 8, =9=, 10
-- -- painting of the body by, 270
-- -- wore ornaments but no clothing, 8
Ceremony, primitive dress worn on occasions of, 5, 135
Chaco of Highland Light Infantry, 241
-- -- Scottish Rifles, 241
Chain mail, 233, 234, =234=
Chains for the neck in Richard II's time, 113
-- of Mayors, origin of, 113
Chancellor of a University, robes of a, 210
Chapel keeper at Wellington Barracks, top hat of, 248
Chaperon, 152
-- development of, =156=, 157, =157=
-- of Richard II's time, 157
-- survival of, 228
-- vestige on gowns of City Livery Companies, 231
-- -- -- mantles of knights, 158, =230=
Chaplet of flowers used after baptism, 164
Charles I regulates clerical costume, 185
-- II, formation of Guards by, 246
Chasuble, 193, =194=
-- casula, the forerunner of, 192
Chauffeurs' cockades, 160
Checks, 311
Chemise, 288
-- gauze, of Merveilleuses, 346
Chevasse, Mr., on individuality shown by clothes, 316
Children carried on the left arm, 22
-- dressed like their parents, 162
-- sucking the left breast, 24
Chimere, 199
Chimpanzee, hair of, 6
China, painted pasteboard figures burnt at funerals in, 274
-- puppet-show in, 259
-- the use of paint by women in, 275
Chin band, 201, 202, =203=
Chinese women, stunted foot of, 335
Chinook Indians, deforming the heads of children, 335
Chiton, 187
Choker, 200
Choristers at Jesus College, Cambridge, bands of, 45, =45=
Chrism cloth, 164
Christians, dress of ancient, 187
-- early, wore the same costume at worship as at home, 189
Christ's Hospital, 167
Chrysalis, 163
Chrysolite as a detector of poison, 124
Chrysome, 164
-- brasses, 164
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