Costume: fanciful, historical, and theatrical . rt,and the sleeves would match the skirt ; and therewas much variety in head-dress, the velvet captasselled and set with jewels above a floating veilbeing a popular style. But cauls, coifs, and Frenchhoods, and the high bands in front, were inevidence, together with a white three-corneredcap, the original no doubt of the Marie Stuartcap of succeeding years. The men were as prodigal as the women, andspared no expense or time or thought in theirpursuit of the sumptuous and the elegant ; theirshoes and garters and hats glittered with gems,and they w
Costume: fanciful, historical, and theatrical . rt,and the sleeves would match the skirt ; and therewas much variety in head-dress, the velvet captasselled and set with jewels above a floating veilbeing a popular style. But cauls, coifs, and Frenchhoods, and the high bands in front, were inevidence, together with a white three-corneredcap, the original no doubt of the Marie Stuartcap of succeeding years. The men were as prodigal as the women, andspared no expense or time or thought in theirpursuit of the sumptuous and the elegant ; theirshoes and garters and hats glittered with gems,and they wore rings and chains in profusion, raisingthe trades of tailors and goldsmiths and cloth-makers to supreme importance. Jack of Newbury, 52 COSTUME CHAP. a famous cloth merchant of the time of Henry VIII.,is described as appearing before that monarch ina plain russet coat and a pair of white kersey slops,the stockings of the same piece being sewn to hisslops. Slops was a term developed from slip,and signified any garment easily adjusted, and an. IN THE TIME OF HENRY VII. example of its use occurs in Much Ado AboutNothings a phrase running as, a German fromthe waist downward, all slops ; hence may thesuspicious glean that the Teuton habit of costumewas not mainly trim. Men yielded to the general craze for anexpanded hip, wearing great breeches stuffed withhair or bran or wool, and exhibiting no less than VI IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY 53 feminine enthusiasm in the width of their hose, of different detail, was either of clothor silk, and blazed with colour, being ornamentedwith gold or threads of Venetian silver, though theKing himself preferred cloth hose, which also hadthe honour of decorating Queen Elizabeth, untilshe chanced to meet with the silk stocking, towhich she thereafter clung with tenacity. Jane Seymours coronation dress was of herfaithless spouses favourite material, cloth of gold ;all his wives seem to have been obliging enough toyield to his fancy for thi
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