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
Gentleman of George III's time, 141, 143
George II's reign, coachman, coat of, 142, =142=
-- -- on naval uniform, 251
-- III, black coats at Eton, mourning for, 169
-- -- gentleman's dress, 141, 143
-- III's reign, the pouter coat of, 141
German, dress of the, 318
Germs of disease disseminated by trailing skirts, 358
Giangurgolo, Calabrian, 1731, 257, =257=
Gimmal rings, 115
Girdle, 73
-- of judge, 217
Girl catching an object in her lap, 341
Girls, colour preferences of, 307
-- in factories, barefooted, 334
-- wearing their hair down, 166
Gladstone, Mr., abolished the serjeants-at-law, 217
Gloucestershire regiment, badges of, 245
Glove of Anne, Consort of James I, 98, =99=
-- stitching carried on to the back of Elizabeth's coronation,
=97=, 98
-- -- -- down the back of, =97=, 98
Gloves, 94, 195
-- early, without fingers, 94
-- embroidery carried on to the backs of, 98, =99=
-- fourchettes of, =97=, 98
-- not worn by nuns, 204
-- points on, =96=, 98
-- with two thumbs in Iceland, 95
God, solar, of Egypt, 123
Gold dust put on the head, 131
Golfers, red coat of, 235
Gordon, Miss Helen, on painting used in the time of Queen Anne, 279
Gorget the badge of an officer on duty, 235
Gorilla, hair of, 6
Gown, 18
-- black, 185
-- Geneva, bands worn with, 44
-- of judge, 217
-- -- King's Counsel, 218
-- -- Master of Arts, 210
-- -- Oxford Undergraduates, 210
Gowns, black, legal mourning for Queen Mary II, 218
-- worn by scholars at Eton, 169
Greek betrothal rings, 115
Gremial, 202
Grenadier, caps of Scots Greys, 244
Greys, Scots, 245
Grenadier Guards, 248
Groom, =140=
-- origin of belt, 139
-- -- -- dress, 139
Guards, drummers of, fleur-de-lys on braid of, 246
-- formation of, by Charles II, 246
-- Grenadier, 248
-- -- buttons on coats of, 29
-- Irish, 248
-- Life and Horse, survival of cord for priming powder horn, 108
-- Scots, 248
-- white jackets of, 243
Guignol, 255
-- French punch, 257
-- the name derived from Giangurgolo, 257
Guild liveries, 232
Guinea, New, women wear no clothes, 9
Habit, black of clergy, 308
Habits, monastic, 198
Hackle feathers of Northumberland Fusiliers, 244
Hair, clubbed, 134
-- curly, imitated, 130
-- dedication of, 128
-- dishevelling of, as mourning, 181
-- down, girls wearing their, 166
-- early man covered with, 6
-- great value attached to a profuse head of, 128
-- long, not necessarily effeminate, 127
-- not correlated with cold climate, 6
-- of women dressed differently from that of men, 128
-- powder, 131
-- -- coloured, 131
-- putting up of, by girls, 166
-- queued, 134
-- Roman modes of doing the, 132; Plate VII, facing page 129
-- use of others, 130
Halberds of Yeomen of the Guard, 225
Handkerchief in general use in Henry VIII's time, 195
-- used for wrapping up dinners, 195
-- -- -- -- -- presents, 195
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