. Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX . in place. The cravat, tied and twisted in Steinkirk form, ormore simply folded, long held its place in fashion-able dress. The stock with buckle made of pasteHas put the cravat out of date, wrote Whyte in 1742. With this quotation we will turn from neckwearuntil a later period. CHAPTER VII CAPS AND BEAVERS IN COLONIAL DAYS So many poynted cappesLased ivith double flapsAnd soe gay felted cappesSaiv I never. So propre cappesSo lyttle hattesAnd so false hartesSaw I never. The Maner of the World Nowe~a-dayes, John Skelton, 1548. The Turk in li
. Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX . in place. The cravat, tied and twisted in Steinkirk form, ormore simply folded, long held its place in fashion-able dress. The stock with buckle made of pasteHas put the cravat out of date, wrote Whyte in 1742. With this quotation we will turn from neckwearuntil a later period. CHAPTER VII CAPS AND BEAVERS IN COLONIAL DAYS So many poynted cappesLased ivith double flapsAnd soe gay felted cappesSaiv I never. So propre cappesSo lyttle hattesAnd so false hartesSaw I never. The Maner of the World Nowe~a-dayes, John Skelton, 1548. The Turk in linen wraps his headThe Persian his in lawn, too,The Russ with sables furs his capAnd change will not be drawn to. The Spaniards constant to his blockThe Frenchman inconstant ever;But of all felts that may be feltGive me the English beaver. The German loves his coney-woolThe Irishman his shag, too,The Welsh his Monmouth loves to wearAnd of the same will brag, too. — A Challenge for Beauty, Thomas Hayward. CHAPTER VII CAPS AND BEAVERS IN COLONIAL DAYS. NY student of English history andletters would know that caps wouldpositively be part of the outfit ofevery emigrating Englishman. A capwas, for centuries, both the enforced and desired headwear of English folk of quiet Britons, Welshmen, Irish, Anglo-Saxons, Danes, and Normans all had worn caps, as well as ancient Greeks and Romans. These English caps had been of divers colors and manifold forms, some being grotesque in-deed. When we reach the reign of Henry VIII we are made familiar in the paint-ings of Holbein with a certain flat-cap which sometimes had asmall jewel or feather or a double fold, but never varied greatly. This was known as the city
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