The heritage of dress; being notes on the history and evolution of clothes (1912)
Webb, Wilfred Mark, 1868- · London, The Times Book Club · leaf 123
n a signet ring, and wereprobably used as amulets ; but of orna-ments worn on account of their supposedvirtues we will speak in a moment. An ornament for the head, with whichwe will deal, is the crown. Mr. Elworthy,in a paper to the British Association atIpswich in 1895, derived the crown fromhorns… … 86 THE HERITAGE OF DRESS called the crown, into which horns entered to a verygreat extent. The panache in heraldry is derived from thehorn, and it may be recalled that the deerskin cloaks wornby the Bronze Age people over the woven dresses thathave been described on pages i8 and 53, bore the horns…
Costume · Clothing and dress
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