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1. | Drawing of a woman engraved by a cave man | 9 |
2. | Sketch showing the development of the tunic. In this stage it has no arms | 17 |
3. | Diagram showing the way in which a sleeved tunic is derived from the shawl | 18 |
4. | A smock frock | 19 |
5. | Jacket of a woman, made in one piece. Bronze stage of culture (after Worsaae) | 19 |
6. | Man’s dress showing buttons on the right side | 20 |
7. | Woman’s dress showing buttons on the left side | 21 |
8. | Diagram showing how a man does up a button. First stage | 23 |
9. | Diagram showing how a man does up a button. Second stage | 23 |
10. | Diagram showing how a woman does up a button. First stage | 23 |
11. | Diagram showing how a woman does up a button. Second stage | 23 |
12. | The buttons on the back of a policeman’s great-coat | 26 |
13. | The buttons that close the slit up the back of an ulster | 27 |
14. | A back view of a seventeenth-century coat showing the buttons and buttonholes | 28 |
15. | The tab and buttons on the back of a soldier’s great-coat which make a temporary waist | 29 |
16. | The buttons and tab on a tramway driver’s coat | 31 |
17. | An eighteenth-century coat with side buttons and tab | 31 |
18. | Side tabs and buttons at the back (after Racinet) | 31 |
19. | A coat worn at the end of the seventeenth century (after H. Bonnart) | 32 |
20. | A modern coat with side pockets | 32 |
21. | A footman’s coat, modern, with vestigial pocket flaps | 33 |
22. | Coat skirts buttoned back (after Hogarth) | 33 |
23. | A coat with the skirts buttoned back and showing the lining | 34 |
24. | A dress coat with skirts cut away | 34 |
25. | A modern coat cuff with buttons | 35 |
26. | Turned-back cuff, end of seventeenth century (after Bonnart) | 35 |
27. | A coat sleeve (after Hogarth) with horizontal row of buttons | 36 |
28. | Sleeve of a coat of the seventeenth century, reputed to have been worn by Charles I | 36 |
29. | The turned-back cuff of an overcoat, modern | 37 |
30. | A sleeve with vertical buttons and a turned-back cuff as well (from a uniform, after Hogarth) | 37 |
31. | The uniform of a coastguard officer of 1775 (after Racinet) | 39 |
32. | The nicks in the coat and waistcoat | 41 |
33. | A stage when the nick was useful (Lucien Bonaparte, after Paul Lacroix) | 42 |
34. | The “toothpick” on a dress coat | 43 |
35. | Modern bands | 45 |
36. | A blue-coat boy’s bands | 45 |
37. | A chorister of Jesus College, Cambridge, showing the collar worn until recently. (From a photograph, by the courtesy of Mr. H. Austin Wheaton) | 45 |
38. | A stage in the reduction of bands (portrait of Jan Steen from the Illustrated Magazine of Art) | 46 |
39. | Full-sized bands (portrait of John Pym from the Illustrated Magazine of Art) | 46 |
40. | A modern bandbox, now used for hats | 47 |
41. | Bands that survive at the present day | 47 |
42. | The turban of a Jewish priest (after Kitto) compared with the dome of the Mosque of Omar | 50 |
43. | A Siamese head-dress and a Pra Pang or votive spire (after P. A. Thompson) | 51 |
44. | A Gothic spire (St. Stephens, Caen) compared with the hennin (the latter after Fairholt) | 51 |
45. | Band with streamers fastening on the head-dress of an Egyptian woman. From a figure of the Sixth Dynasty, 3500 B.C. | 52 |
46. | A lady’s head-dress confined with a fillet, fourteenth century (after Viollet le Duc) | 52 |
47. | A sailor hat with band and streamers | 53 |
48. | A twelfth-century head-dress with streamers, from a MS. (after Viollet le Duc) | 53 |
49. | A modern Scotch cap with streamers | 54 |
50. | A mitre of the See of Durham showing the strings (after Millington) | 54 |
51. | Small vestigial bow of ribbon in a modern hat | 55 |
52. | A hat with the remains of lacing | 55 |
53. | A hunting hat with complete lacing inside | 56 |
54. | A disc of leather | 57 |
55. | The disc perforated and the lace inserted | 57 |
56. | The lace tightened to form a crown | 57 |
57. | The ends of the lace tied as a bow inside | 57 |
58. | A bow fastened to the lining of a lady’s hat | 58 |
59. | Plumes on the left side | 58 |
60. | The red Hungarian cap, which was the forerunner of the busby | 59 |
61. | A busby (of the Hon. Artillery Company) in which the cap is a vestige only | 59 |
62. | A fireman’s helmet (of the ancient Greek type) | 60 |
63. | Buttons so arranged that the broad brim of a hat can be fastened to the crown, thus forming a temporary “cock” (Hudibras, after Hogarth) | 60 |
64. | A modern boot decorated with perforations made in the leather | 63 |
65. | An ornamented Roman shoe, of two thicknesses | 63 |
66. | A Roman shoe of open-work leather | 63 |
67. | A hide shoe of pre-Roman type from Ireland (after Fairholt) | 64 |
68. | The original top boot with the upper part temporarily turned down | 65 |
69. | The modern top boot in which the upper part can no longer be turned up | 66 |
70. | Puttees | 66 |
71. | Leg bandages of a royal personage at the end of the tenth century (after Fairholt) | 67 |
72. | A stocking with clocks | 68 |
73. | An embroidered stocking showing the further evolution of the clock (date 1900) | 69 |
74. | An open-work stocking of 1905 | 69 |
75. | A shawl used as a kilt by a chieftain of Denmark in the bronze stage of culture (after Worsaae) | 73 |
76. | A simple dress in the form of a petticoat from an Egyptian figure of the Sixth Dynasty (3500 B.C.), from the Myers collection in Eton College Museum | 74 |
77. | A Korean servant (after Hough) | 75 |
78. | A short kilt | 76 |
79. | A barbarian soldier wearing characteristic trousers (from a diptych of St. Paul, after Marriott) | 78 |
80. | A Saxon military man wearing wide trousers (from the Harleian MS., No. 603, after Fairholt) | 79 |
81. | A peasant woman of Champéry wearing trousers | 80 |
82. | A German Hussar of 1808 | 81 |
83. | The crest on a modern signet ring | 85 |
84. | Sir Geoffrey Loutterell and the ladies of his family, showing the extent to which armorial bearings were worn in the middle of the fourteenth century. From a psalter, made for Sir Geoffrey (after Fairholt) | 85 |
85. | The crest and surcoat of Henry, first Duke of Lancaster, A.D. 1347. From the brass to Sir Hugh Hasting at Elsyng, Norfolk (after Charles Boutell) | 86 |
86. | The helmet and crest of the Black Prince. From “Vetusta Monumenta” (after St. John Hope) | 88 |
87. | The shield of the Black Prince. From “Vetusta Monumenta” (after St. John Hope) | 89 |
88. | The surcoat or jupon of the Black Prince. From “Vetusta Monumenta” (after St. John Hope) | 89 |
89. | The postilion of a Lord Mayor of London, wearing a crest upon his cap, and a coat of arms upon his sleeve (copied by permission from a plate published by the John Williamson Co., Ltd.) | 92 |
90. | A baby’s glove without separate fingers | 95 |
91. | The back of a woollen glove showing the three vestiges known as “points” | 96 |
92. | A modern kid glove showing the fourchettes or pieces between the fingers, which form three pointed V’s | 97 |
93. | Queen Elizabeth’s coronation glove, showing the stitching carried down on to the back. (From a photograph by the courtesy of Messrs. Fownes Brothers and Co.) | 97 |
94. | The glove of Anne, Queen Consort of James I, showing the embroidery on the fingers, which is the ancestor of the modern “points.” (From a photograph, by the courtesy of Messrs. Fownes Brothers and Co.) | 99 |
95. | A silk lace with simple metal tags | 101 |
96. | Ornamental metal tags on a velvet neck ribbon | 101 |
97. | A simple safety-pin | 102 |
98. | An Etruscan brooch or fibula, resembling a safety-pin. (In the collection of Major W. J. Myers in Eton College Museum) | 103 |
99. | The safety-pin in the waistband | 103 |
100. | The safety-pin grown larger and used for fastening on a hat | 104 |
101. | A muff-chain | 105 |
102. | A hawker, illustrating the primitive way of carrying a burden | 107 |
103. | A courier-bag supported by a baldric | 107 |
104. | An ornamental baldric of the early fifteenth century. (Royal MS. 15, D. 5, after Fairholt) | 108 |
105. | A lady’s dress, showing the part which is called a yoke, and recalls a primitive method of carrying burdens | 109 |
106. | A loom comb found in the Glastonbury lake dwellings (after Boyd Dawkins) | 118 |
107. | A modern comb for the hair | 118 |
108. | Two studs of bronze, seen from above and from the side, later Bronze Age (after Worsaae) | 119 |
109. | The “flash” of five black ribbons on the collar of the Welsh Fusiliers. A survival from the days of the pigtail | 134 |
110. | The modern groom, showing the belt to which ladies clung when riding on a pillion | 140 |
111. | A footman in plush breeches and with powdered hair. His “pouter” coat dates from the reign of George III. By the courtesy of Messrs. F. T. Prewett and Co. | 141 |
112. | A sheriff’s coachman with the full-skirted coat of the time of George II. By the courtesy of Messrs. Prewett and Co. | 142 |
113. | The wig-bag (a survival of the bag-wig) now seen on the back of the collar of the Lord Mayor’s coachman | 143 |
114. | A modern page-boy’s livery | 145 |
115. | The Dutch skeleton dress, fashionable for boys in 1826 | 145 |
116. | The cockade known as the “large treble,” representing a survival of the chaperon | 152 |
117. | A “treble cockade” covered with black cloth for mourning. The concentric circles would appear to represent the twisted liripipe of the chaperon | 154 |
118. | Treble cockade used by Chelsea pensioners | 155 |
119. | The Regent cockade | 155 |
120. | Royal cockade for state occasions | 155 |
121. | Ordinary Royal cockade | 155 |
122. | | Two stages in the evolution of the chaperon. Combined hood and cape | 156 |
123. | Enlargement of the peak of the hood to form the liripipe. (After Calthrop, by kind permission of Messrs. A. and C. Black) | 156 |
124. | | Further development of the chaperon. Cape and liripipe made into a head-dress that can be altered at will | 157 |
125. | A chaperon ready made up, in order to save trouble. (After Calthrop, by kind permission of Messrs. A. and C. Black) | 157 |
126. | Dress worn by the girls at Coombe Hill School, Westerham. It is a modification of the Dervish Djibah | 172 |
127. | Dress worn by the girls at the Croft School, Betley, when at work | 173 |
128. | St. Gregory the Great with his father Gordianus, who was a senator, on his right, and his mother Sylvia on his left. This shows the similarity between ecclesiastical and civil costume in early times. From an authentic picture (after Marriott) | 188 |
129. | A priest in the vestments now worn at the celebration of the Eucharist | 194 |
130. | The coat of arms of Thomas à Becket, showing an archbishop’s pall | 198 |
131. | The head-dress of a nun showing the veil and breast-cloth derived from the wimple, the cap which represents the chin-cloth, together with the frontal and the hood | 203 |
132. | The head-dress of a lady of the time of Henry II. The wimple is shown covering the chin and head-bands (after Calthrop) | 203 |
133. | The chin-band and forehead strap after the wimple has been removed (after Calthrop) | 203 |
134. | Hanging sleeve of the fifteenth century | 209 |
135. | The hanging sleeve of a Chancellor of Oxford University | 211 |
136. | A college cap or trencher | 214 |
137. | Cranmer’s hat, illustrating a stage in the evolution of a mortar-board (after Fairholt) | 214 |
138. | The hat of a bishop of the Stuart Period showing a stage at which the stiffening now seen in the mortar-board was becoming necessary (after Fairholt) | 214 |
139. | The wig of a modern judge | 216 |
140. | The vestige of the coif from the wig of a serjeant-at-law | 217 |
141. | A barrister’s gown showing the vestigial hood and its streamer. The buttons and braid which once temporarily looped up the sleeves now fix it permanently | 219 |
142. | A Yeoman of the Guard of the present reign | 224 |
143. | The wig-bag or “flash” from a Court suit, showing the rosette held away and displaying the black silk bag. At the lower corners of the latter loops are seen, which are probably the remains of those through which a ribbon was passed, which went round the neck and fastened on the breast by a brooch | 229 |
144. | The hood from the mantle of a Knight of the Garter, showing the survival of the chaperon and its liripipe | 230 |
145. | Relic of chain mail on the shoulder of an Imperial Yeoman | 233 |
146. | Chain mail illustrated by the brass of Sir Richard de Trumpington, A.D. 1289 | 234 |
147. | A reversion in military equipment. One of Cromwell’s Ironsides (1679), from a print. A Cavalryman sketched at Aldershot in 1901. Copied, by permission, from the Daily Mail | 237 |
148. | The prickers on the shoulder-belt of a Hussar, which survive from the time of flint-lock muskets | 239 |
149. | The Oscan Pulicinella of 1731, without a long nose. The dress is very similar to that figured in 1630 (after Riccoboni) | 256 |
150. | The Calabrian Giangurgolo of 1731, with the long nose. The dress is very similar to that figured in 1630 (after Riccoboni) | 257 |
151. | An ancient bronze statuette with the face and features of Punch (after Ficorroni) | 258 |
152. | A fourteenth-century puppet-show (from the MS. of the “Roman d’Alexandre”) | 259 |
153. | Punch, from the Punch and Judy Show, showing the ruff and other details of Elizabethan costume | 263 |
154. | Judy, from the Punch and Judy Show, with ruff, mob cap, and apron | 263 |
155. | The Beadle, from the Punch and Judy Show | 264 |
156. | The Doctor, from the Punch and Judy Show, with wig and white tie | 264 |
157. | A clown, showing a survival of an Elizabethan costume | 270 |
158. | The dress of a modern harlequin | 284 |
159. | A pantaloon, showing an Elizabethan costume of which Venetian breeches form part | 285 |
160. | The bands that survive on a lady’s nightdress | 289 |
161. | A woman’s nightcap, still worn in Wiltshire | 289 |
162. | A man’s nightcap, from Oxfordshire | 290 |
163. | An English horse amulet in the form of a crescent. The flat places near the tips of the horns are evidence that the form is derived from two boars’ tusks | 294 |
164. | An English horse amulet showing both the heart and the sun | 296 |
165. | The cowry-shell ornaments on the head of an officer’s charger of the 10th Hussars. The pendant recalls that on mules in Palestine | 298 |
166. | Cowry shells on an Eastern mule, hanging like the pendant of the 10th Hussars | 299 |
167. | Cowry shells on the head-stall of a camel from Palestine | 299 |
168. | A Merveilleuse (after A. Robida) | 345 |
169. | A modern family, consisting of the average-sized mother, the taller daughter, and the puny boy (from a drawing by Miss Audrey Watson in “Physical Efficiency,” by Dr. Cantlie, by kind permission of Messrs. Putnam’s Sons) | 357 |