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 343
s, and that of Queen Eliza-beth, as is shown by the following extract from a billof 1547 : **Pd. for two nyght caps of vellvet for them,8s. od.*^ They were very elaborately embroidered at thisu 290 THE HERITAGE OF DRESS time, and in Marys reign were mentioned in a sump-tuary law. Old men still wear… … Fig. 162.—A mans nigrhtcap, from Oxfordshire. In the time of Queen Anne ladies wore their night-dresses, or night-rails as they were called, in thestreets, and the fashion seems to have been in vogueat later times, though every means were taken to tryand abolish it. It was not until a murderess…
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