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
Prickers on the shoulder-belt of a Hussar, 239, =239=
Priest, =194=
Profession indicated by costumes, 316
Puggaree of Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, 243
Pulicinella, 254
-- means a hen chicken, 264
-- Oscan, of 1731, =256=
Punch, =263=
-- a Roman mime, 183
-- and Judy, dress of, 137
-- -- -- show, beadle of, 147, 262, =264=
-- -- -- -- doctor of, 263
-- -- -- -- Hector, the horse, extinct in, 267
-- -- -- -- Miss Polly, now extinct in, 265
-- back hump of, 262, =263=
-- bronze statuette with face and features of, 258, =258=
-- figures worked by wires, 255
-- front hump of, 253, 261
-- gay clothes of, in France and England, 261
-- in religious plays, 266
-- introduced into _Le Malade Imaginaire_, by Molière, 261
-- origin of clothes of, 257
-- -- --, hump of, 253, 261
-- ruff of, 262, =263=
-- stick of, 260
-- the behaviour of, changes, 264
-- voice of, 264
Pupa, Greek name for a baby in swaddling clothes, 163
Puppet derived from pupa, 163
-- show of fourteenth century, 259, =259=
-- shows in China, 259
Puritans and Quakers, fashions set by, 348
Purple as mourning, 182
Puttees, 66, =66=, 328
-- of Indian Army, 66
Pyjamas, 128
-- worn by ladies, 288
Pym, John, bands of, 46, =46=
Quakers refused to wear buttons, 119
Queued hair, 134
Quiver carried on a baldric, 106
Ra, 122
Rats, white, 302
Rank once indicated by dress, 319
-- indicated by dress in certain professions, 320
-- not usually shown by dress, 319
Ramillies, battle of, 244
Red cap of liberty, 306
-- not universal in the British Army, 308
-- rag of chulos in the bull fight, 306
-- ribbon of engaged girl, 306
-- rose of Lancaster, 306
-- shirt of the followers of Garibaldi, 306
-- tie of platelayer, 306
Regimental badges, 245
Revers buttoned back, 38, =39=
Reynolds, Mr. P. W., on the survival of a button, 248
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- forage cords, 241
Rhead, Mr., on the festal dress of Otaheite, 338
Richard II's time, chaperon of, 157
Rifle Brigade, busby of, 242
-- -- cross belt of, 242
Ring, 195
-- for nose of Hindu ayahs, 111
-- in Ireland, bearing clasped hands, 116
-- of Bishop Agilbert of Paris, 114
Rings, betrothal of Greeks, 115
-- -- -- Romans, 115
-- engagement, 114
-- Egyptian, of blue pottery of faïence, 116
-- Episcopal, 114
-- finger, in Babylon, 114
-- -- -- Egypt, 114
-- for ears, 112
-- gimmal, 115
-- in which the stones stand for letters, 116
-- sacred eye on, 117
-- signet, 83, =85=
-- -- in Egypt, 114
-- -- suspended from the neck, 116
-- used as an insignia of rank by Romans, 115
-- wedding, 114
-- -- worn by nuns, 204
-- why worn on third finger, 115
Robe, parliamentary, of the King, 222
-- coronation, eagles on, 222
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