. Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX . irl. The Venerable Hood 247 withmanand of young lads and girls playing Hoodman-blindor Blindman s-buff. The latter name came fromthe buffet or blow which the players gavetheir twisted chaperon hoods. The blindsimply put his hood on hind side afore,;was effectually figures are ofthe fifteenth century. The wild latitude ofspelling often makes itdifficult to define anarticle of dress. I havebefore me a letter ofthe year 1704, writtenin Boston, asking thata riding-hood be sentfrom England of anycolor save yellow ; andone sentence
. Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX . irl. The Venerable Hood 247 withmanand of young lads and girls playing Hoodman-blindor Blindman s-buff. The latter name came fromthe buffet or blow which the players gavetheir twisted chaperon hoods. The blindsimply put his hood on hind side afore,;was effectually figures are ofthe fifteenth century. The wild latitude ofspelling often makes itdifficult to define anarticle of dress. I havebefore me a letter ofthe year 1704, writtenin Boston, asking thata riding-hood be sentfrom England of anycolor save yellow ; andone sentence of the in-structions reads thus, If tis velvet let itbe a shabbaroon ; if ofcioth, a French abandoned shabba-roon as a wholly lostword; until Mrs. Gum-mere announced that the word was chaperon, fromthe Norman hood just described. This chaperon isspecifically the hood worn by the Knights of theGarter when in full dress ; in general it applies toany ample hood which completely covers head andface save for eye-holes. Another hood was the Black Silk Hood. u 248 Two Centuries of Costume The term coif, spelt in various ways, quoif,quoiffe, coiffer, ciffer, quoiffer, has been held to ap-^ ply to the French hood ; but it cer-tainly did not inAmerica, for I findi often in invento-ries side by sideitems of blacksilk hoods andanother of quoifs,which I believewere the white un-dercaps worn withthe French hood;just as a coif wasthe close under-cap for menswear. Jr Quilted Hood. Through the two centuries following the assump-tion of the French hood came a troop of hoods,though sometimes under other names. In 1664Pepys tells of his wifes yellow birds-eye hood, very fine, to church, as the fashion now says hoods were not displaced by caps andbonnets till George IIs time. In the list of the wedding apparell of MadamPhillips, of Boston, are velvet hoods, love-hoods,and sneal hoods ; hoods of Persian, of lustring,of gauze; frequently scarlet hoods are named. In1712 Ric
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