British costume during XIX centuries (civil and ecclesiastical) (1910)
Ashdown, Charles H., Mrs · London and Edinburgh : T. C. & e. c. Jack · leaf 351
monarch, taken in theeighth year of his reign, Harl. MS. 2284. The hose forhis own use are frequently mentioned, and the materialsspecified to be cloth of various kinds and colours; fromwhich it appears that stockings of silk formed no part ofhis dress at that period. The Trunk-Hose or Stocks.—A… … ornamental bands would serve for the upper stocks, while crimson cloth of a finer textureoccurred for the nether. This isvery clearly shown in Fig. 292. Itis copied from a figure on one of thecolumns of the Ware Chantry (dated1532) in Boxgrove Church, Sussex.This fashion, however, did not pre-vail…
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