Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. · leaf 217
oneon each hip,which would af-ford four laps inall. Mr. Knight,in his notes onShakesperesuse of the word,conjectures thatthe jerkin wasgenerally wornover the doublet; but one guess is as good as an-other, and I guess it was not. I agree, however, withhis surmise that the two garments were… … A Plain Jerkin. The Evolution of Coats and Waistcoats 165 the garments, save that in the beginning the doubletwas always of two thicknesses, as its name indi-cates ; and it was wadded. As the jerkin was often minutely slashed, it couldscarcely have been wadded; though it may havehad a lining for…
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