The heritage of dress; being notes on the history and evolution of clothes (1912)
Webb, Wilfred Mark, 1868- · London, The Times Book Club · leaf 262
n up her nightgown infavour of p3^amas. Here and there we find that nightcaps are still worn. Thatbelonging to an old lady, which we figure (see Figure i6i),came from the village of Bishopstone in Wiltshire, where nofewer than twelve old ladies, all of them over eighty, still wearsuch a head-dress… … Figure 162.—^A mans nightcap, from Oxfordshire. They were very elaborately embroidered at this time, andin Marys reign were mentioned in a sumptuary law. Old menstill wear nightcaps, and the one we figure was used untillately at South Stoke in Oxfordshire. It is of the familiarstyle that we…
Costume · Clothing and dress
Internet Archive · Smithsonian Libraries · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
