Periwig, first appearance of in history, 255;
proportions of, during the reign of Charles II., 255
Petticoat breeches, 128-130
---- inflation, era of, 138
Picadil, 189-192
Piccadilly, 190;
fringe, 275
Piers Plowman, description of Meed (Bribery), 212
Pilche, 98-100
Pole, Edmund de la, letter to, 46
Pot-hat, examples of in past art, 25
Puffing, 117
Punch, Mr., fragments of a love-song, 74;
satire of crinoline, 172-176;
crinoletta, 176;
short side-whiskers, 276;
warning to ladies riding in crinolines, 170
"Roman de la Rose," satire on dress, 38;
dress of Mirth, 53;
horned head-dresses, 213
Roxburghe ballads, 40, 252, 255, 283
Ruff, invention of, 183;
extravagances of, 187;
various kinds of, 192;
disappearance of, 194
Ruffle, 183-184
St. Bernard, admonition of his sister, 36
Salisbury, Lord, remarks on modern costume, 56
Sandal, Greek, 283;
of Italian peasantry, 286;
modern, 301
Shoe roses, 296
Shoes, early British, 286;
Anglo-Saxon, 288;
pointed toed, 289-291;
broad toed, 294-296
Slashings, 117-118
Sleeves, serrated, 72;
development of, 112-113;
tight, 112;
cut work of, 112;
"pokys," 112
"Spencer" jacket, 137
Starching, 184
Stow, reference to ruffs, 187
Strutt, 73
Stubbes, "Anatomy of Abuses," feminine habit of aping masculine dress, 42;
peascod bellied doublets, 124;
ruffs, 180, 186, 188;
praise of barbers, 250;
moustachios, 272
Sumptuary laws, principal Acts, 28-36, 290
Surcoat, Anglo-Saxon period, 76;
thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, 74
_Tailor and Cutter_, hints of impending changes in men's attire, 56
Tailors, Latin song upon the, 92
"Tale of Beryn," the, quotation from, 89
Toga, plan of, 86;
dimensions of, 88
Trouser stretcher, 56
Trousers, their antiquity, 25;
the apparent eternity of, 54;
development of, 54;
inconveniences of, 56;
Frankish, 69;
Norman, 114
Trunk hose, bombasting of, 118, 122;
of period of James I., 126
Tudor period, magnificence of dress of, 140
Tunic, the, 61-80;
primitive form of, 61;
Egyptian, 63;
Greek, 64;
child's tunic, Egyptian, 64;
plan of, 66;
super-tunic, 66;
Lacedemonian girls', 67;
Charlemagne's, 69;
military, 77
Turban, 209
Uses of clothing, the, 20-24
Veddas of Ceylon, 20
Weaving, silk, in France and England, 52
Whisk, 188-189
Whiskers, Dundreary and mutton chop, 274;
short side, 276
Wigs, Egyptian, 254;
first appearance in England, 255;
cost of when first worn, 256;
different shapes of, 256;
Lord Ellenborough's, 258
William III., long-skirted coats, 104
Wimple, 183, 211
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