RUFFS AND BANDS
_“Fashion has brought in deep ruffs and shallow ruffs, thick ruffs and
thin ruffs, double ruffs and no ruffs. When the Judge of the quick and
the dead shall appear he will not know those who have so defaced the
fashion he hath created.”_
—Sermon, JOHN KING, Bishop of London, 1590.
“Now up aloft I mount unto the Ruffe
Which into foolish Mortals pride doth puffe;
Yet Ruffe’s antiquitie is here but small—
Within these eighty Tears not one at all
For the 8th Henry, as I understand
Was the first King that ever wore a Band
And but a Falling Band, plaine with a Hem
All other people know no use of them.”
—“The Prayse of Clean Linnen,” JOHN TAYLOR, the “Water Poet,” 1640.