The heritage of dress; being notes on the history and evolution of clothes (1908)
Webb, Wilfred Mark, 1868- · New York, The McClure Co.; London, E. Grant Richards · leaf 107
swrap round their legs, and the writer has seen itstated that ostlers in this country still perpetuate theAnglo-Saxon fashion, though he has never met with 68 THE HERITAGE OF DRESS an actual instance. The pfiferari who some yearsago used toi play on bagpipes and other primitiveinstruments in our… … Fig. 72.—A stocking with clocks. has been made is very often present, and takes theform of the ornament which we know as a clock.The name signifies a gusset, and in modern socksand so on, which are woven or knitted all in onepiece, no such arrangement is to be found. Stock-ings, however, like those…
Costume · Clothing and dress
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