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
Tattooing, 13
-- and mittens, 99
-- destroys the effect of nakedness even in Europeans, 277
-- effect of, produced by open-work stockings and blouses, 70
-- of the Maoris, 277
-- practised by early Egyptians, 277
-- -- -- European sailors, 277
-- -- -- modern sailors, 277
-- -- -- Jews, 277
-- -- -- practised by old inhabitants of this country, 277
-- scar, as a means of recognition, 276
Tax on elegant dress, 350
Teeth blackened by Hindu women, 273
-- -- -- Japanese women on marriage, 273
Thistle, hood of the Order of the, 230
Thistles, 222
Tie, white at, Eton, 169
Tierra del Fuegians, 11
Tights, 70
-- of acrobats, 286
-- a survival of Florentine hose, 286
-- -- knightly orders, 231
Tippet, 192, 212
Tippets of Doctors of Divinity, scarlet, 212
-- for ministers who are not graduates, 199
Tobit, dog in the Book of, suggested by Toby, 267
Toby, Elizabethan ruff of, 253
-- represented in China by a dragon, 267
-- -- -- France by a cat, 267
-- ruff of, 263
-- suggests the dog in the book of Tobit, 267
Toga, 187
-- replacement of, 192
-- when worn, 187
Toledo, Fourth Council of, 192
Tonsure, 217
-- of priests, 127
Topaz as a detector of poison, 124
"Toothpick" collar of dress coat, 43, =43=
Top-coat, 149
Trades, characteristic dresses of, 320
Trajan, trousers shown on the column of, 78
Tramway drivers, buttons on back of the coats of, 30, =31=
Treble, cockade, large, =152=
Trencher, 47, 213, =214=
Triangles, mystic interlaced, 293
Trimmings of judge's gown, altered in colour by Lord Coleridge, 218
Triskele in the coat-of-arms of the Isle of Man, 119
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- Sicily, 119
Trousers, bell-bottom, 347
-- evolution of, 77
-- method of buttoning bishops', 252
-- not worn by Romans, 77
-- of labourers, method of buttoning, 252
-- -- sailors, method of buttoning, 252
-- shown on Trajan's column, 78
-- worn by barbarians, 78, =78=
-- -- -- lady gardeners at Kew, 358
-- -- -- Normans, 79
-- -- -- Saxons, 79, =79=
-- -- -- women in Siam, 81; see Plate V, facing p. 81
-- -- -- -- -- Persia, 81
-- -- in riding dress by ladies, 358
Trumpeters, State, uniform of, 242
Trumpington, Sir Richard de, brass of, showing chain mail, 234, =234=
Trunk hose of clown, 269
-- -- of Knightly Orders, 231
Tudor dresses, shown by playing cards, 231
-- flat cap, 214
Tunic, 16, 17, =17=, 187
-- developed from the shawl, 17, =18=
Tunic, Egyptian, 16
-- Greek, 16, =17=
-- of monks, 201
-- sleeved, 17
-- survival of the Anglo-Saxon, 288
Tunica alba, 189
Tunicle, 195, 221
Tunics, black, of farriers of Life Guards, 242
-- of Anglo-Saxons compared with a shirt, 288
-- -- Lacedæmonian girls slit down the side, 346
Turban like the dome of a mosque, 50, =50=
Turquoises always fashionable, 123
Twenty-Ninth Foot, sergeants of, wear sashes over their left
shoulders, 249
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