The Heritage of Dress: Being Notes on the History and Evolution of ClothesWebb, Wilfred Mark
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The Heritage of Dress: Being Notes on the History and Evolution of Clothes
Webb, Wilfred Mark
Clothing and dress; Clothing and dress -- History
Chulos in bull fight, red rag of, 306
Churches, Gothic, compared with hennin-like head-dress, 50, =51=
Clans, tartans of Scotch, 312
-- with several tartans, 312
Claremont, Mr., on opals and bad luck, 124
Clark, Professor E. C., on college caps, 213
Clavi, 191
Clement, St., on special dress for worship, 205
Clergy, adoption of vestments by English High Church, 192
-- black habit of, 308
-- buttons on sleeves of, 36
-- condemnation of dress by, 344
-- criticized for gorgeous apparel, 345
-- in Holland, dresses of, 200
-- wear academical hood over surplice, 199, 212
Cloaks, deer skin, of Bronze Age people, retaining horns, 117
Clock, meaning a gusset, 68, =68=
-- origin of, 68
Clocks of clowns, 269
Cloth, breast, 202, =203=
-- chrism, 164
-- pied, 313
-- parti-coloured, 313
Clothes, adopted for æsthetic reasons, 14
-- -- -- reasons of coquetry, 14
-- adoption of, for ornamentation, 8
-- -- -- -- reasons of modesty, 8
-- -- -- -- warmth, 8
-- dispensed with on ceremonial occasions, 136
-- distortions caused by, 322
-- effect upon action, 341
-- -- of, upon the outsider, 315
-- everyday, worn at night, 287
-- first worn by women, 12
-- in their development subject to the same laws that act upon the
bodies of animals, 362
-- made from the bark of trees, 11
-- mental effect of, 339
-- minimum of, worn at sports, 6
-- not necessarily worn in cold climates, 11
-- -- worn at night, 287
-- of animal actors, 301
-- -- dolls, 137
-- -- monkeys, 301
-- -- Punch, origin of, 257
-- represented among animals, 291
-- Sunday, 205
-- swaddling, 163
-- the principles of evolution applied to, 1
-- used to alter the shape of the body, 337
-- useful characters always retained, 15
-- why worn, 8
-- worn at executions, become unfashionable, 353
(See also under the headings of _Costume_ and _Dress_)
Clothing, not worn by cave men, 8
-- preferences of girls for different articles of, 340, 341
Clown, 283
-- clocks of, 269
Clowns, painting of, likened to that once in vogue in China and
Japan, 276
-- paint of face of, 269
Clubbed hair, 134
Coachman, coat of, 142, =142=
-- Lord Mayor's, wig-bag of, 143, =143=
-- origin of dress, 139
-- red coat of royal, 235
-- wig of, 132, 142, =142=
Coastguard, revers of, buttoned back, =39=
Coat, blue in sixteenth century, 168
-- buff, 235
-- development of the modern, 15
-- evolved from the shawl, 16
-- lapels, nicks in, 41, =41=, =42=
-- patched, of harlequin, 283
-- pouter, 141, =141=
-- red, a best, 235
-- -- origin of, 249
-- -- survived for a long time in Cornwall, 235
-- skirts buttoned back for riding, =33=
-- swallow-tail, evolution of, 33, =34=
Coats at Harrow, 169
-- -- Westminster, 169
-- of arms, 83
-- -- Scottish Archers, 226
Coats, waterproof of, lambs, 300
Cobbett, criticisms on Quakers, 119
Cock of a hat, 61
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