Handbook of English Costume in the Sixteenth Century |
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aiglets Anatomie of Abuses band billiment bodice bongrace bonnet border breeches brim buttons chemise City of Exeter cloak Close fitting cloth coat coif colour Cotgrave County Session Rolls crown cuffs cut-work D/DP decorative doublet edge embroidered embroidery English hood Essex County Essex County Session Exeter Records falling band farthingale fashionable fastened flat Flat Cap French hood frill front fustian garment girdle gloves gold gown hair Hall's Satire hanging sleeves head Henry VIII INDIANENSIS Inventory jerkin jewelled kirtle knee knitted lace leather lined linen lyned Mandilion material MDCCCXX narrow neck nether occasionally ornamental ostrich pair partlet Petre Archives pickadil plain pomander ribbon round ruff satin Satire VI seam shape shirt shoes SIGILLUM silk silver sixteenth century skirt slashed slit sometimes standing collar stiffened stockings Stubbes style taffeta tam-o-shanter thread trimmed trunk hose undercap undersleeves UNIVERSITATIS upper usually velvet VERITAS waist watchet wear wool woollen worn wrist yards