British costume during XIX centuries (civil and ecclesiastical) (1910)
Ashdown, Charles H., Mrs · London and Edinburgh : T. C. & e. c. Jack · leaf 181
tly, from which depends the long streamer calledthe tippet, which sometimes reached the ground. In allilluminated manuscripts these tippets are white. Itshould be noticed that they are fixed directly in front ofthe sleeves; a few years later, however, we find themoccasionally fastened so as to hang… … Fig. 129.—Alan Fleming, 1361.Newark, Nottinghamshire. 19 D ii., and dating probablyfrom about 1350 to 1360, ex-hibits these pockets, one oneither side, and also affordsan idea of the length of thetippet at that period (Fig. 128,PI., No. 3). In order to showthat these pockets were notstrictly…
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