. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . his lord. In modern England the clergy alone neverlay aside the mark of their pri)tcssion. It is true the satiristsof the fourteenth century accuse the clergy of bedizeningtheir clerical garments with so much finery that they lostall professional distinction and bei-ame assimilated to the cos-imne of the laity. I!ut the (derical garb was not the onlydistinctive dress. In England, no less than in France, it
. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . his lord. In modern England the clergy alone neverlay aside the mark of their pri)tcssion. It is true the satiristsof the fourteenth century accuse the clergy of bedizeningtheir clerical garments with so much finery that they lostall professional distinction and bei-ame assimilated to the cos-imne of the laity. I!ut the (derical garb was not the onlydistinctive dress. In England, no less than in France, it wastheir (ifticial cMstnmc which gained for lawyers, when the_y had ceasetl to be clergy, the de-scriptive title of gentlemenof the long robe. Thus, withthe (jualitications alreadymentioned, for our purposeswe may make shift to usethe illuminations of manu-scripts, the ethgies on tondi-stones, the chance descriptionsof romancers, and the savagedetail of satirists. One doesnot al\va3s contirm the other;inileed, .sometimes they Hatlycontradict eaih other. LUitthe information will be suf-.^>.j,v>v. ..1 i-ompiling a dressmakers boolcWe are investigating a curious and iiv no means. The UpperClasses. arc not eiioaoed in cient. We of fashions. uninstructive side of human history^ which lias its own witness to bear to the display and development of national no less than individual character. But a history of costume must needs be cliieHv a historyof changes in the shape of outward garments. Thus the classeswhose dress remains almost stationary from generation togeneration do noi, occupy a large portion of our attention. Itis with the well-to-do, those of noble birth and of high position,those who formed the society of the time in the technicalsense, tliat we must chiefl} (concern ourselves. The comparisonof the costumes of various classes is little more than anti-quarianism. The object before us is the manifestation of acertain |ihase of the human mind. No\r, before we examinein
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