. Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX . oquial purposes; and soon thefalling-band became the fall. In the Wits Recrea-tion are two epigrams which show the thought of thetimes : — Why Women weare a Fall A Question tis why Women wear a fall ?And truth it is to Pride theyre given Pride, the proverb says, will have a fall.* Or LITTLE DIMINUTIVE BaND What is the reason of God-dam-mes band,Inch deep ? and that his fashion doth not alter,God-dam-me saves a labor, understandIn pulling it off, where he puts on the Halter. God-dam-me was one of the pleasant epithetswhich, by score
. Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX . oquial purposes; and soon thefalling-band became the fall. In the Wits Recrea-tion are two epigrams which show the thought of thetimes : — Why Women weare a Fall A Question tis why Women wear a fall ?And truth it is to Pride theyre given Pride, the proverb says, will have a fall.* Or LITTLE DIMINUTIVE BaND What is the reason of God-dam-mes band,Inch deep ? and that his fashion doth not alter,God-dam-me saves a labor, understandIn pulling it off, where he puts on the Halter. God-dam-me was one of the pleasant epithetswhich, by scores, were applied to the Puritans. The bands worn by thelearned professions, twostrips of lawn with squaredends, were at first the elon-gated ends of the shirt col-lar of Jonathan have them still, to re-mind us of old fashions;and we have another wordand thing, band-box, whichmust have been a stern ne-cessity in those days ofstarch, and ruff, and was by no means a convention of dress thatGod-dam-me should wear a small band. Neither. Reverend Jonathan Edwards. Ruffs and Bands 203 Cromwell nor his followers clung long to plain bands ;nor did they all assume them. It would be whollyimpossible to generalize or to determine the stand-ing of individuals, either in politics or religion, bytheir neckwear. I have before me a little group ofprints of men of Cromwells day, gathered for extraillustration of a history of Cromwells time. Letus glance at their bands. First comes Cromwell himself from the Cooperportrait at Cambridge ; this portrait has a plain linenturnover collar, or band, but two to three incheswide. Then his father is shown in a very broad,square, plain linen collar extending in front expansefrom shoulder seam to shoulder seam. Sir HarryVane and Hampden, both Puritans, have narrowcollars like Cromwells; Pym, an equally precisesectarian, has a broader one like the fathers, butapparently of some solid and rich embroidery likecut-work. Edward Hyde, the Earl
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