The heritage of dress; being notes on the history and evolution of clothes (1912)
Webb, Wilfred Mark, 1868- · London, The Times Book Club · leaf 75
* A correspondent, Mr. W. Morrison, has suggested that the mitre is anEgyptian crown. Alexandria was the University town of the early ChristianChurch. The Patriarch, like other clerics, wished to arrogate temporalpower, and it is probable that he would wear an imitation of the crown. VESTIGES IN… … Figure 49.—A twelfth-century head dress withstreamers from a MS. (afterViollet le Due). It is possible also that in the lacing we have a means by which a hat was originally shaped, and that the lace is really a hat band threaded through the material of the head-dress instead of being tied round…
Costume · Clothing and dress
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