Category: History - Other
It would be difficult to find a subject of more universal interest than that of dress, and hosts of books have been written which deal with the attire that has been adopted at different times and by various nations or social classes. The ornamental and artistic sides of the qu...
Weddings are ceremonies in connection with which we may look for some points of interest, as customs in connection with them change but slowly. In this country, if convention be...
18. Part 18The case of dress brought forward by Mr. Heather Bigg is exactly a case in point. We have seen in the opening chapters of this book that man has lost his hairy covering, and, so...
17. Part 17In England, after the Norman Conquest, there seems to have been little pattern used up to the time of Henry II, when diaper began to appear. Just as damask takes its name from D...
7. Part 7As early as the seventh century a ring was among the distinctive insignia of a bishop, and one was found on the finger of Bishop Agilbert of Paris (who lived at this time) when...
9. Part 9The cockades worn by the Royal servants on the front of their three-cornered hats on state occasions (see Figure 120) are large. The rosette has points, while the upper part, or...
13. Part 13In the earlier part of the book it was made evident that military uniforms afford a fine field for research, though apart from the remains of armour, however, they are comparati...
15. Part 15Professor Moseley[41] records that the same form of painting is to be seen in the case of Japanese children on festive occasions, for after they have been elaborately dressed by...
16. Part 16Perhaps one of the most interesting survivals in connection with horses is to be found in the brasses which decorate those used for carts and waggons. Dr. Plowright[48] has show...
12. Part 12Perhaps no form of head-dress is more strange than the college cap or mortar-board, or, in technical language, _pileus quadratus_, or cater cap. This skull-cap, with its curious...
8. Part 8The reason why we can do this so well is that the Romano-Egyptians put on the top of their coffins a model of the head of the person who was buried in it. Professor Flinders Pet...
11. Part 11To garments which are white and have at times to be washed, these ornaments are sewn or otherwise attached, so that they can be removed when it is necessary and replaced. The am...
6. Part 6On his carriage, the Marquis of Abergavenny wears his badges, a rose and a portcullis, one on each side of his crest, and there are interesting cases here and there of badges wo...
14. Part 14As might be expected, the original Punch was a man--not Pontius Pilate, as has sometimes been suggested owing to the connection of Punch with miracle plays, but a character in t...
5. Part 5One of the most perfect instances of vestiges, as Sir George Darwin points out, is afforded by top boots. In their original form, still to be seen in our streets on sewer men, t...
3. Part 3We have now noticed two ways in which clothes must have been brought into use, namely, as adornments and for protection. We have still to consider the third of the obvious reaso...
19. Part 19The enactments, however, which were directed against excess in dress do not seem to have always been so successful. The part which the law has played with regard to dress in our...
4. Part 4An interesting case of superfluous buttons on the front of clothes is to be seen in the case of the short jackets of the postilions, belonging to His Majesty the King. There is...
2. Part 2111. A footman in plush breeches and with powdered hair. His "pouter" coat dates from the reign of George III. By the courtesy of Messrs. F. T. Prewett and Co. 141
21. Part 21Fashions due to royal peculiarities, 131 -- gay, follow periods of depression, 345 -- in hair arrangement, 126 -- kept up by superstitions, 349 -- origin of, difficult to trace,...
20. Part 20Bands, 44, =45= -- of barristers, 44 -- -- blue-coat boys, 44, =45= -- -- choristers at Jesus College, Cambridge, 45, =45= -- -- Jan Steen, 46, =46= -- -- John Pym, 46, =46= --...
22. Part 22Painting, 13 -- by native races, 272 -- follows the bones of the body, 272 -- of clowns likened to that once in vogue in China and Japan, 276 -- -- the body by cave men, 270 --...
1. Part 1It would be difficult to find a subject of more universal interest than that of dress, and hosts of books have been written which deal with the attire that has been adopted at d...
23. Part 23134 "Fusillers" changed to "Fusiliers" (Fig. 109) 145 "Sketon" changed to "Skeleton" (Dutch Skeleton Dress) 213 "carboard" changed to "cardboard" (made of cardboard covered with...