. Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX . , and was aye helpit first and keepit uphis authority as a man should so. Parents were parentsthen ; and bairns dared not set up their gabs afore them asthey do now. That the covering of the head in church still hasa significance on important occasions, is shown by arubric from the Form and Order for the Corona-tion of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra;this provides that the king remains uncovered dur-ing the saying of the Litany and the beginning ofthe Communion Service, but when the sermon begunthat he should put on his Cap of crimson
. Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX . , and was aye helpit first and keepit uphis authority as a man should so. Parents were parentsthen ; and bairns dared not set up their gabs afore them asthey do now. That the covering of the head in church still hasa significance on important occasions, is shown by arubric from the Form and Order for the Corona-tion of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra;this provides that the king remains uncovered dur-ing the saying of the Litany and the beginning ofthe Communion Service, but when the sermon begunthat he should put on his Cap of crimson velvetturned up with Ermine, and so continue, to the endof the discourse. Hatbands were just as important for mens hatsas womens — especially during the years of thereign of James I. Endymion Porter had his wifesdiamond necklace to wear on his hat in Spain. Itprobably looked like paste beside the gorgeousnessof the Duke of Buckingham, who had the Mirrorof France, a great diamond, the finest in England, to wear alone in your hat with a little blacke. 234 Two Centuries of Costume feather, so the king wrote him. A more curious hat ornament was a glove. This handsome hat is from a portrait of George, Earl of Cumberland. It has a womans glove as afavor. This is said to havebeen a gift of Queen Eliza-beth after his prowess in atournament. He alwayswore this glove on state oc-casions. Gloves were wornon a hat in three meanings :as a memorial of a dead friend, as a favor of a mis-Hat with a Glove as a Favor. ^^ Qr as & nwk q( cha]_ lenge. A pretty laced or tasselled handkerchief wasalso a favor and was worn like a cockade. An excellent representation of the Cavalier hatmay be seen on the figure of Oliver Cromwell (page3$), which shows him dismissing Parliament. Cor-nelius Steinwycks flat-leafed hat has no feather. The steeple-crowned hat of both men and womenwas in vogue in the second half of the seventeenthcentury in both England and America, at the timewhen the witchcraft tragedies
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