item: #1 of 11
          id: 1051
      author: Carlyle, Thomas
       title: Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh
        date: None
       words: 82065
      flesch: 60
     summary: the others: _such_ work goes on under that smoke-counterpane!--But I, _mein That is to say, we presume, speaking in the dialect of this lower world, that Teufelsdrockh's whole duty and necessity was, like other men's, to work,--in the right direction, and that no work was to be had; whereby he became wretched enough.
    keywords: accident; account; action; active; activity; actual; age; ages; altogether; ancient; andreas; animal; answer; appearance; aprons; arms; aspect; astonishment; attempt; attention; aught; authentic; author; authority; autobiographer; azure; bag; bags; basis; battle; bearing; beautiful; bed; beginning; beneath; best; better; biographical; biography; birth; black; blind; blue; blumine; bodies; body; book; bosom; boundless; brave; bread; breeches; british; broken; brother; burning; business; case; cast; celestial; centre; centuries; century; certain; chance; chaos; chapter; character; chief; child; childhood; children; christian; church; circulation; circumstances; cities; city; class; classes; clear; clearer; close; clothes; cloud; clutch; colored; colors; comes; coming; common; communion; conceivable; condition; confusion; conjecture; considerable; constitution; continual; countries; country; course; creation; creatures; cries; cunning; curiosity; curious; custom; cut; daily; dandiacal; dandy; darkness; day; days; dead; death; deep; deeper; degree; desert; desire; despicable; destiny; devil; difficult; dim; diogenes; discern; discover; distance; distant; distinguished; divine; divinity; doctrine; documents; domestic; doors; doubtless; drawing; dream; dress; drop; dust; duty; dwells; earnest; earth; earthly; editor; education; effect; effort; element; emblem; endeavor; england; english; enigmatic; entepfuhl; environment; eternity; europe; european; evening; everlasting; example; existence; expectation; extant; external; eyes; face; fact; faculties; faculty; fair; faith; fall; false; family; fancy; fantasy; far; fashion; fast; father; favor; fear; feeling; feet; fell; felt; figure; fine; fire; firm; fit; fixed; flame; flesh; following; food; foolish; force; form; forth; fraction; fragments; free; freedom; french; friend; friendship; fruit; future; garment; gay; general; generation; genius; german; glance; gneschen; god; godlike; gold; gone; good; government; 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rare; reach; reader; reading; ready; real; reality; reason; red; regard; region; religion; religious; remark; remarkable; rest; results; return; revealed; reverence; rich; rise; rising; room; rose; round; royal; runs; sacred; safe; said; satisfaction; savage; school; schoolmaster; science; scientific; sea; seasons; second; secret; sect; self; sense; set; shadow; shape; sheets; shows; sick; significance; silence; silent; silk; silver; simple; singular; sink; skin; sky; sleep; small; smallest; smoke; social; society; soever; soft; solid; solitude; sorrow; sort; soul; sovereign; space; spectre; speculative; speech; spirit; spiritual; spite; splendor; stand; star; state; steam; stillness; stone; strange; street; strength; strong; study; style; subject; substance; successive; sudden; suit; sun; supposed; surprise; symbols; system; tables; tailor; talent; task; temper; temple; tendency; terrestrial; teufelsdrockh; thee; therefrom; thick; thine; things; thinking; thou; thou art; thought; thy; 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        item: #2 of 11
          id: 10940
      author: Jacob, P. L.
       title: Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period
        date: None
       words: 159061
      flesch: 60
     summary: The functions of this kind of domestic magistracy were exercised by officers known under various names, such as _kings, masters, elders, guards, syndics_, and _jurors_, who were besides charged to visit the workshops at any hour they pleased in order to see that the laws concerning the articles of workmanship were observed. For the three following courses, there was a roe-deer, a pig, a sturgeon cooked in parsley and vinegar, and covered with powdered ginger; a kid, two goslings, twelve chickens, as many pigeons, six young rabbits, two herons, a leveret, a fat capon stuffed, four chickens covered with yolks of eggs and sprinkled with powder _de Duc_ (spice), a wild boar, some wafers (_darioles_), and stars; a jelly, part white and part red, representing the crests of the three above-mentioned persons; cream with _Duc_ powder, covered with fennel seeds preserved in sugar; a white cream, cheese in slices, and strawberries; and, lastly, plums stewed in rose-water.
    keywords: "--fac; 4to; abbey; absolute; account; acts; addition; administration; advantage; affairs; ages; amman; amusements; ancestors; ancient; animals; anjou; annual; appeal; appearance; appreciated; arbitrary; archives; armed; arms; army; arsenal; art; articles; artisans; assemblies; assembly; assistance; association; attempt; attention; augustus; authorities; authority; bad; bailiffs; bakers; banquet; barbaric; barons; basis; basle; bavaria; bear; bed; beer; beginning; bel; belt; best; bibl; birds; birth; bishop; black; blind; blood; blow; bodies; body; boileau; boiled; bold; book; bordeaux; bore; bourbon; bourgeois; bread; brittany; broken; brother; bruges; brussels; burgundy; business; butchers; butter; calling; came; capital; captain; care; carrying; case; castle; cathedral; celebrated; central; centre; centuries; century; ceremonies; ceremony; certain; chains; chamber; champagne; change; chapel; chapter; character; charlemagne; charles; cheese; chief; children; chilpéric; chivalry; christian; christianity; chroniques; church; churches; châtelet; circumstances; cities; citizens; city; civil; civilisation; classes; clear; clergy; cloak; close; cloth; clothes; clovis; coast; code; coesre; coeur; coin; collection; commerce; commercial; common; communes; communities; community; companions; company; complete; condition; consecration; consequence; considerable; consuls; consumption; contrary; cooked; cookery; cooking; copper; corn; corporation; cosmographie; costume; council; councillors; countries; country; counts; course; court; covered; craft; crime; criminal; cross; crown; culprit; curious; currency; custom; d'or; daily; dame; dances; dancing; danger; dates; daughters; day; days; de paris; dealers; death; decided; deep; degrees; deniers; denis; deprived; des; description; desire; details; developed; devoted; dice; dieu; different; difficult; dignity; dishes; display; distinct; distinguished; districts; disuse; divided; documents; dogs; domains; domestic; door; 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games; garments; gauls; general; gentleman; germanic; germany; ghent; gibbet; gipsies; gipsy; god; gold; golden; goldsmiths; good; government; grain; grand; grapes; great; greater; greatest; green; gregory; gros; guests; guillaume; guilty; habits; hair; half; hall; hand; handed; hanging; hard; hare; hat; hawking; head; heavy; henry; herbs; heron; high; higher; highest; historians; historical; history; holding; holy; home; honour; horseback; horses; hot; house; household; human; hung; hunters; hunting; husband; hôtel; idea; illustration; immense; imperial; important; increased; individual; industry; inferior; influence; inhabitants; instance; institutions; intercourse; interest; interesting; invention; iron; isabel; issue; italian; italy; jacques; jean; jewels; jewish; jews; john; judges; judgment; judicial; jugglers; jurisdiction; justice; keepers; kind; king; kingdom; kitchen; knife; knights; knowledge; known; ladies; lady; lands; language; languedoc; large; latin; law; laws; lay; learned; 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particular; parties; pastimes; pastry; pay; payment; pearls; peasants; peers; penalty; people; period; permission; personal; persons; philip; philippe; phoebus; pieces; pies; pigs; pious; place; plan; playing; pleasure; plums; poem; point; pointed; political; pomp; poor; pope; popular; population; pork; position; possession; possible; pot; poultry; power; powerful; practice; precious; preferred; prelates; prepared; prerogatives; presence; present; president; pretended; pretext; prey; price; princes; principal; prisoners; private; privileges; procession; produce; progress; properties; property; protection; provence; provinces; provost; public; punishment; purpose; purse; quality; quantity; quarrels; quarter; queen; question; race; rank; ready; reason; received; reference; regular; regulations; reign; religion; religious; remarkable; repast; resembled; respect; return; revenue; revolution; rheims; rich; richard; right; rise; rogues; roman; rome; room; rose; rouen; round; royal; royalty; rules; rural; sacred; said; saint; salaries; sale; salt; salted; sanguinary; satisfied; sauce; saw; saying; scene; science; sea; second; secret; security; seeing; selling; sentence; serfs; sergeants; servants; service; servitude; set; seventeenth; seventeenth century; seventh; severe; shape; sheep; shoes; shoulders; silk; silver; similar; simile; simplicity; sitting; sixteenth; sixth; size; skill; slaves; sleeves; small; social; society; soil; soldiers; solemn; sols; sort; soup; sous; southern; sovereign; spain; special; spices; spirit; spite; sporting; sportsmen; spread; square; stag; state; statutes; stones; stop; strange; streets; strength; strong; struggle; stuffs; subject; successors; sufficient; sugar; sum; sums; supreme; sweet; sweetmeats; sword; system; table; tapestry; taste; taxation; taxes; tenth; terrible; territory; testimony; thick; things; thirteenth; thought; throne; time; title; torture; toulouse; tours; towns; trade; treasury; treatise; trial; tribunal; true; tunic; twelfth; twelfth century; unfortunate; universal; universelle; university; unknown; upper; use; valois; value; varied; vassals; vegetables; vehmic; venery; venice; victim; view; vii; viii; village; villain; vine; waist; walls; want; war; wars; watch; water; way; wealth; wearing; week; weight; west; white; wide; wife; wild; william; window; wine; women; woodcut; words; work; worked; working; world; worthy; xii; year; young; youth
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        item: #3 of 11
          id: 11078
      author: Quigley, Dorothy
       title: What Dress Makes of Us
        date: None
       words: 13431
      flesch: 68
     summary: Thin women with necks that look like the strings of a violin should swathe, smother, decorate, and adorn their throats with lace or gossamer fabrics that have the same quality as lace. [Illustration: NO. 55] Tall, stout women should forego high heels on their shoes, high hats, and striped dresses.
    keywords: age; angular; apparent; appearance; appropriate; arrangement; arranging; artistic; audience; backs; balance; band; bang; basque; beautiful; beauty; best; body; bonnet; breadth; brim; broad; brow; buttons; cape; caricature; certain; chapter; chin; cloak; clothes; coat; coiffure; coil; conceal; conspicuous; corsage; countenance; crown; curves; cut; day; defects; distinction; dress; dressing; effect; eyes; face; facial; fact; features; forehead; form; garments; gear; grace; graceful; gray; hair; hat; hats; head; heavy; height; high; hints; horizontal; illustration; impression; increase; jacket; lace; large; length; like; lines; little; long; look; low; matter; mode; nature; neck; needs; nos; nose; obvious; old; physical; picture; plain; proportions; relief; rich; round; rules; selection; short; shoulders; sketch; skirt; slender; soft; stout; stout woman; straight; study; style; tall; tendency; thin; throat; trimmings; type; unattractive; velvet; waist; way; wearing; wedge; white; woman
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        item: #4 of 11
          id: 20585
      author: Carlyle, Thomas
       title: Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
        date: None
       words: 182004
      flesch: 68
     summary: Given the living _man_, there will be found _clothes_ for him; he will find himself clothes. Ah yes, I will say again: The great _silent_ men!
    keywords: accident; accomplished; account; acting; action; active; activity; acts; actual; admiration; affection; age; ages; aim; allah; allegory; altogether; ambition; ambitious; anarchy; ancient; andreas; anger; animal; answer; appearance; aprons; arab; arabia; arms; arrangement; articles; artificial; aspect; astonishment; asunder; attempt; attitude; authentic; author; authority; away; awe; awful; azure; bad; bags; bare; barren; basis; battle; bear; bearing; beautiful; beauty; beginning; belief; beneath; best; better; bible; biographical; biography; birth; black; blind; blood; blue; blumine; bodies; body; book; bosom; boundless; boy; brave; breeches; brick; brief; british; broad; broken; brother; build; burning; burns; burst; business; caabah; calling; capability; capable; care; career; carlyle; case; cast; celestial; centre; centuries; century; certain; certainty; change; chaos; chaotic; chapter; character; characteristic; chief; child; childhood; children; christian; christianity; church; circulation; circumstances; cities; city; class; classes; clay; clear; clearer; close; clothes; clothing; clouds; clutch; college; coloured; colours; comes; coming; common; communion; company; complete; conceivable; conception; condition; confused; confusion; conjecture; conscious; consider; considerable; constitution; content; continual; continued; contradiction; conversion; corner; costume; countries; country; courage; course; court; creation; creatures; creeds; cries; critics; cromwell; cry; cunning; curiosity; curious; current; custom; cut; daily; dandiacal; dandy; dante; darkness; day; days; dead; death; deep; deeper; deepest; defiance; degree; democracy; depths; desert; desire; despair; despicable; destiny; destruction; details; devil; devout; dialect; different; difficult; difficulties; dim; diogenes; direct; direction; discern; discover; distance; distant; distinction; distinguished; divine; divinity; doctrine; documents; domestic; door; doubt; doubtless; drawing; dream; dress; dry; duke; dumb; dust; duty; dwells; earliest; early; earnest; earnest man; earnestness; earth; earthly; ease; easy; edinburgh; editor; education; effect; effort; eighteenth; element; emblem; embodiment; empire; end; endeavour; ended; endless; enemy; engine; england; english; enigmatic; enormous; entepfuhl; entire; environment; epoch; equal; error; essence; essential; eternal; eternity; europe; european; evening; everlasting; example; existence; exists; expression; extant; eyes; face; fact; faculties; faculty; fail; fair; faith; faithful; fall; fallen; false; false man; falsehood; family; fancy; fantastic; fantasy; far; farewell; fashion; fast; fatal; father; faults; favour; fear; feeling; feet; fell; fellow; felt; fichte; field; fierce; fiery; fighting; figure; filaments; final; fine; finger; fire; firm; fit; fixed; flame; flesh; following; food; foolish; foolish man; foot; force; foreign; forest; form; formulas; forth; fortune; fountain; fox; fraction; fragments; france; fraser; free; freedom; french; friend; friendship; frost; fruit; function; fundamental; furnished; future; garment; gate; gay; general; generation; generous; genius; genuine; genuine man; george; german; giant; gifted; gilt; glance; glimpses; globe; glorious; gneschen; god; godlike; gods; goethe; gold; golden; gone; good; gospel; government; grace; grand; gratitude; gray; great man; great soul; great things; great world; greater; greatest; greatness; green; gretchen; grim; grown; growth; guidance; guide; habit; hair; half; hammer; hand; happiness; happy; hard; harmony; hast; hateful; hatred; head; hearsays; heart; hearted; heaven; heavenly; heavy; hebrew; hell; help; hero; heroes; heroic; heroism; herr; heuschrecke; hidden; hide; high; higher; highest; highway; historical; history; hitherto; hofrath; hold; hollow; holy; homer; honest; honour; hope; hot; hour; house; household; huge; human; humble; humour; hunger; hungry; hypothesis; idea; idle; idolatry; idols; iii; ill; image; imagination; immeasurable; immensity; important; inane; inarticulate; incredible; indifference; indignation; indispensable; individual; indubitable; industry; inevitable; infant; infinite; influence; inmost; inner; innumerable; inquiry; insight; inspiration; inspired; instance; instinct; intellect; intellectual; interest; interesting; internal; invaluable; invisible; inward; iron; islam; island; johnson; joy; judge; judgment; justice; jötun; kadijah; kind; kindled; king; kingdom; know; knowest; knowledge; knox; koran; koreish; labour; language; large; laughter; law; laws; lead; leaf; learning; leather; leave; lecture; left; length; letters; liberty; lies; life; light; lightning; like; likely; lips; literary; literary man; literature; little; live; living; logic; logical; london; long; longer; look; looking; lord; loss; lost; love; lowest; loyalty; luther; lying; machine; mad; madness; magazine; magic; mahomet; maker; making; man; manhood; manifest; manifold; mankind; manner; masses; material; matter; mean; meanest; meaning; measure; meat; mecca; mechanical; mechanism; meditation; meet; meeting; melodious; melody; memorable; memory; men; mere; merit; message; method; middle; mighty; military; mill; millions; mind; mirabeau; miracle; miraculous; miscellaneous; miserable; miseries; misery; modern; moment; money; monk; monster; mood; moon; moral; morality; morning; mother; mountains; mournful; movement; music; musical; mysterious; mystery; mystic; naked; nameless; names; napoleon; nation; national; native; natural; nature; nay; near; necessary; necessity; need; new; newspaper; nigh; noble; nobleness; noblest; norse; notable; note; notice; nowise; number; obedience; object; obscure; obscurity; obsolete; occasion; ocean; odin; oftenest; old; old man; oldest; oliver; open; opening; opinion; opposite; order; organic; original; original man; outer; outward; paganism; painful; paper; paradise; paris; parliament; parliamentary; partial; party; pass; passage; passionate; past; pause; pay; peaceable; peasant; peculiar; people; perennial; perfect; perfection; period; perpetual; personal; persons; phasis; phenomenon; philosophical; philosophies; philosophy; phoenix; physical; picture; piece; pilgrim; pity; place; plain; planet; play; poet; poetic; poetry; point; political; poor; pope; portion; portrait; position; possession; possible; post; poverty; power; practical; practice; prayer; preaching; precious; presence; present; pride; priest; primary; primeval; prince; principle; printing; private; problem; product; professor; profit; progress; proof; property; prophet; prophetic; protestantism; province; public; pure; puritanism; purport; purpose; quackery; qualities; quality; quarrel; queen; question; questionable; quiet; rags; rank; rare; rate; reader; reading; ready; real; realities; reality; reason; recognition; record; reformation; regard; region; relation; religion; religious; remark; remarkable; resartus; respect; rest; result; return; revealed; reverence; revolution; rich; rigorous; rise; rising; rock; room; root; rose; rough; round; rousseau; royal; rubbish; rude; rugged; ruin; rule; runs; rustic; sacred; sad; safe; said; saint; sake; samuel; sartor; satisfaction; savage; saying; scandinavian; scene; sceptical; scepticism; scheme; school; schoolmaster; science; scientific; scotch; scotland; sea; seasons; second; secret; sect; seeing; seek; seer; self; semblance; sense; set; shadow; shakspeare; shape; sheets; shining; shot; shows; shut; sick; significance; silence; silent; silk; simple; simplicity; sincere; sincere man; sincerity; singing; singular; sink; sins; skin; sky; slave; sleep; slow; small; smoke; social; society; soft; soldiers; solid; solitary; solitude; solution; song; sore; sorrow; sort; soul; sovereign; space; speaking; species; spectre; speculations; speculative; speech; speeches; sphere; spirits; spiritual; spite; splendour; spoken; spread; square; stand; stars; state; steam; step; stern; stillness; stone; strange; strangely; street; strength; strong; strong man; struggle; struggling; study; stuff; stupendous; style; subject; substance; successive; sudden; suffering; suit; summary; summer; sun; superficial; superior; supreme; surprise; swift; sword; symbols; sympathy; system; tables; tailor; talent; talk; task; teacher; teaching; temper; temple; temporary; tendency; terrestrial; teufelsdröckh; thee; thenceforth; theorem; theory; therefrom; thereon; thick; things; thinker; thinking; thither; thor; thou; thought; thousands; thunder; thy; time; tissue; title; toil; tolerance; tones; tools; torn; total; touching; towgood; town; trade; tradition; treatise; tree; true; true man; truest; truth; ultimate; unbelief; uncertain; understanding; unfathomable; unhappy; union; united; universal; universe; university; unknown; unseen; unspeakable; upper; uses; usual; utmost; utterances; vain; valet; valiant; valour; value; vanished; vanity; vast; venerable; vesture; victorious; victory; view; vii; viii; village; virtue; visible; vision; vital; voice; voltaire; volume; walk; walls; wanderer; wandering; want; war; warmth; waste; watch; water; way; ways; weak; wear; weissnichtwo; welcome; wert; whatsoever; whereof; white; whoso; wide; wife; wild; wild man; wilderness; wilt; winds; winter; wisdom; wise; wise man; wisest; wish; withered; witness; woe; woman; wonder; wonderful; wondrous; wood; words; work; working; world; worship; worst; worthy; woven; wreck; wretched; writer; writing; written; wrong; years; young; young man; youth
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        item: #5 of 11
          id: 21914
      author: Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)
       title: The Woggle-Bug Book
        date: None
       words: 7603
      flesch: 79
     summary: See 21914-h.htm or 21914-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/1/9/1/21914/21914-h/21914-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/1/9/1/21914/21914-h.zip) THE WOGGLE-BUG BOOK by L. FRANK BAUM Pictures by Ike Morgan Chicago The Reilly & Britton Co. 1905 Copyright 1905 by L. Frank Baum Every Right Reserved The Unique Adventures of the WOGGLE-BUG ONE day Mr. H. M. Woggle-Bug, T. E., becoming separated from his comrades who had accompanied him from the Land of Oz, and finding that time hung heavy on his hands (he had four of them), decided to walk down the Main street of the City and try to discover something or other of interest. The initials H. M. before his name meant Highly Magnified, for this Woggle-Bug was several thousand times bigger than any other woggle-bug you ever saw.
    keywords: arab; arms; balloon; basket; beautiful; big; bridget; bug; car; checks; children; chim; chinaman; cloth; coat; costume; crowd; das; day; dear; delighted; dollars; door; dress; evening; eyes; fast; foreman; glance; good; gown; great; hand; hat; head; heart; home; insect; jungle; king; knife; lady; left; like; long; love; magnified; man; men; mind; miss; money; necktie; new; plaids; professor; red; saw; second; shiek; street; time; wagnerian; way; weasel; widow; wife; wings; woggle
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        item: #6 of 11
          id: 23547
      author: Unknown
       title: Sam Lambert and the New Way Store: A Book for Clothiers and Their Clerks
        date: None
       words: 5114
      flesch: 79
     summary: Among the clerks in the best and biggest of stores there are ten good openers of a sale to one good closer. Before a merchant puts money into store equipment, said the wardrobe man, he ought to be sure that he is getting the very latest and most improved models.
    keywords: arrangement; bad; best; better; big; business; case; center; clerks; clothes; clothing; customer; double; dozen; furnishing; goods; grand; half; important; inside; lambert; lem; line; man; medeena; mind; money; new; plan; point; possible; practical; rapids; ready; right; sale; salesman; sam; shelving; stock; store; stucker; suit; tables; time; trade; view; wardrobe; way
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        item: #7 of 11
          id: 33020
      author: Calthrop, Dion Clayton
       title: English Costume
        date: None
       words: 84943
      flesch: 76
     summary: 'At private dances, the only kind of ball that has at present taken place, are worn dresses of the white-figured gauze over white satin or gros de Naples; at the theatricals sometimes performed by noble amateurs, the younger part of the audience, who do not take a part, are generally attired in very clear muslin, over white satin, with drapery scarves of lace, barêge, or thick embroidered tulle. of the date show men wearing the shirt alone.
    keywords: 1189; 1603; abbey; affair; age; ages; ale; allowed; altered; ankle; appearance; apron; armour; arms; art; artificial; artist; attached; bag; band; bare; base; beard; beau; beautiful; bed; beginning; belt; best; better; big; black; blood; blue; bodice; body; bonnet; book; boots; box; boxes; boy; brass; breast; breeches; brim; brimmed; broad; brooch; brooches; brummell; buckled; bunches; buttoned; buttons; cap; cape; caps; care; cases; castle; caul; caxton; centre; centuries; century; certain; chains; change; chapel; chaperon; chapter; charles; chaucer; chemise; chin; church; circle; circular; citizens; city; classes; cloak; close; clothes; coat; cold; collar; coloured; colours; comfort; coming; common; company; complete; cord; costume; cotehardie; country; course; court; covering; cravat; cromwells; cross; crossed; crown; cuffs; curious; curled; curls; custom; cut; dandy; date; day; days; dead; deep; design; device; different; difficult; distinct; door; doublet; doubt; drawings; dress; dressed; dressing; dutch; earlier; early; easy; edge; edward; effect; elaborate; elbow; elegant; elizabeth; embroidered; end; ending; ends; england; english; enormous; example; excellent; extravagant; eyes; face; fact; fair; fall; false; far; fardingale; fashion; fashionable; fashioned; father; feathers; feet; fifteenth; fifth; figure; fillet; fine; fingers; fitting; flat; flowers; folds; following; foot; forehead; form; fourteenth; fourth; france; free; french; fresh; fur; garments; garter; gay; gear; general; gentlemen; george; german; girdle; glass; gloves; gold; good; gorgeous; gorget; gown; grave; gray; great; green; habit; hair; half; hand; hanging; hat; hats; head; heavy; heeled; heels; height; hem; henry; heraldic; high; hips; hir; historical; history; hold; holes; home; hood; hoop; horns; hose; houppelande; humour; hung; idea; iii; illustration; inches; influence; invention; italian; jacket; jagged; james; jerkin; jewelled; jewels; john; kind; king; knee; knights; knotted; knowledge; known; lace; lacing; ladies; lady; langland; large; later; law; lay; leather; leaves; left; leg; legs; length; life; like; linen; liripipe; list; little; locks; london; long; long hair; long sleeves; longer; look; looking; loops; loose; loose gown; lord; love; low; magnificent; making; man; manner; mantle; marked; married; mary; mass; material; matter; means; men; merchants; metal; middle; mind; modern; monks; monstrous; morning; narrow; natural; near; neat; necessary; neck; new; norman; note; notice; number; open; opening; order; ordinary; ornamented; outside; overcoats; owner; padded; page; pair; parti; partlet; pass; past; patches; pattern; peaked; pearls; peasant; peculiar; people; pepys; perfect; period; periwig; persons; petticoat; picture; piece; piers; pin; pins; plain; plaited; plaits; plate; play; pleated; pockets; point; pointed; poor; possible; pouch; powdered; present; previous; psalter; purse; queen; reach; ready; real; reign; remains; rest; ribbon; rich; richard; richness; riding; roll; roses; rough; round; roundlet; royal; ruff; rule; said; satin; scarlet; second; semicircular; sense; series; servants; set; sewn; shape; shoes; shop; short; shorter; shoulders; showing; sides; silk; silver; sir; skin; skirted; skirts; slashes; sleeves; slight; small; soft; spirit; split; square; stage; steel; steeple; stephen; stick; stockings; stones; stories; straight; straw; streets; strings; striped; stuff; style; suit; summer; sun; surcoat; table; tailor; tall; taste; tendency; thick; thin; things; thomas; thought; thread; tie; tight; tight sleeves; time; toed; toes; tongue; town; train; travelling; trousers; true; trunks; truth; tudor; tunic; turn; twisted; types; universal; upper; use; useful; usual; vanity; varied; varieties; variety; velvet; vest; view; viii; voluminous; waist; waistcoat; walk; wardrobe; way; ways; wear; wearing; westminster; white; wide; wide sleeves; wife; wig; wigs; william; wimple; window; winter; wire; wives; woman; wonderful; wool; words; work; world; worn; wrists; writing; years; yellow; young
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        item: #8 of 11
          id: 34092
      author: Merrifield, Mary P. (Mary Philadelphia)
       title: Dress as a Fine Art, with Suggestions on Children's Dress
        date: None
       words: 27494
      flesch: 70
     summary: Long dresses, also, add to the apparent height of a figure, and for this reason they are well adapted to short persons. The French, whose taste in dress is so far in advance of our own, say, that ladies who are _cinquante ans sonnés_, should neither wear gay colors, nor dresses of slight materials, flowers, feathers, or much jewelry; that they should cover their hair, wear high dresses and long sleeves.
    keywords: age; apparent; appearance; arrangement; art; attention; bad; beauties; beautiful; beauty; best; better; body; boys; broad; cap; case; century; certain; chapter; charles; children; clothes; clothing; colors; costume; country; cut; day; design; drapery; dress; dresses; dressmaker; easy; economy; effect; elegance; elegant; end; england; english; exercise; face; fact; fair; fashion; fashionable; feathers; feet; female; fig; figs; figure; fine; fitting; flowers; folds; foot; form; frame; french; gainsborough; general; girdle; girls; good; graceful; great; greek; hair; hands; harmony; hat; hats; head; health; henry; high; hips; hoop; human; illustration; individual; infant; italian; joshua; journal; kind; knowledge; lacing; ladies; lady; large; length; life; like; line; little; london; long; look; low; materials; means; modern; mother; movement; muscles; natural; nature; necessary; neck; new; old; pattern; peasant; pelisse; period; persons; place; plates; point; poor; portraits; power; practice; present; principles; proportions; purpose; queen; readers; reason; regard; remarks; reynolds; ribbon; round; schools; shape; shoes; short; shoulders; silk; sir; size; skirt; sleeves; slender; small; society; stays; stiff; study; style; subject; taste; thing; tight; time; toes; true; upper; use; useful; vandyck; variety; veil; view; waist; weight; wide; width; woman; work; worn; years; young; youth
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        item: #9 of 11
          id: 34903
      author: Hughes, Talbot
       title: Dress Design: An Account of Costume for Artists & Dressmakers
        date: None
       words: 34877
      flesch: 85
     summary: Gathered sleeve_ Buttons for front_ _
    keywords: 13th; 14th; 15th; 16th; 17th; 18th; ankle; arm; band; bell; belt; black; bodice; body; boots; bow; bows; braided; breast; breeches; brim; brocade; buttoned; buttons; c. pattern; cap; cape; caps; centre; centuries; century; chapter; character; charles; circular; cloak; close; cloth; coat; collar; coloured; corset; costume; crown; cuff; curls; curved; cut; decoration; deep; design; double; dress; dresses; earlier; early; effect; eighteenth; elbow; elizabethan; embroidered; end; examples; face; fall; fan; fashion; favoured; feathers; feature; female; fifteenth; fig; fine; fitting; flat; flowers; forehead; form; fronts; fullness; gathered; gauze; general; george; girdle; gloves; gold; great; hair; half; hat; hats; head; heavy; heels; henry; high; hips; iii; illustration; inches; instep; interesting; jacket; james; jerkin; knee; lace; lady; large; latchets; later; lawn; leather; length; like; linen; little; long; longer; loops; loose; low; male; mary; materials; middle; mode; muslin; narrow; neck; nineteenth; note; open; opening; original; outer; page; parted; pattern; period; piece; plain; plate; pleated; pleats; pocket; pointed; points; proportions; reign; ribbon; robe; round; satin; set; setting; seventeenth; seventeenth century; shape; shoes; short; shorter; shoulder; sides; silk; silk dress; silver; similar; simple; sixteenth; sixties; skirt; sleeve; small; square; stiff; stomacher; straight; straw; style; suit; tabs; tight; time; toes; trimmings; type; upper; use; variety; velvet; victoria; viii; waist; waistcoat; white; wide; william; work; worn
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        item: #10 of 11
          id: 42682
      author: Webb, Wilfred Mark
       title: The Heritage of Dress: Being Notes on the History and Evolution of Clothes
        date: None
       words: 89510
      flesch: 66
     summary: F, facing p. 129, 311 -- the forerunner of the cross, 311 Sword belt, not worn outside the coat, 26 -- handle, opening for, in coat, 30 -- in Court dress, 227 -- ivory hilted, worn by Eleventh Hussars, 244 Tab on soldier's coat, =29=, 30 -- -- side of coat, =31=, 32 Tabards of heralds, 83 Tags, metal, 100, =101= -- ornamental, 101, =101= -- useless on top boots, 66, =66= _Tailor and Cutter_, Editor of, on clothes and nationality, 317 Talismans, wearing of, by ancient Egyptians, 122 Talith, 205 Tannin preserves woven material, 18 Tapir, spotted when young, 94; see Frontispiece Tartan, Cameron, 242 -- wearing of, forbidden, 351 Tartans, Royal Stuart, 312 -- of Scotch clans, 312 -- dyes for, obtained from native plants, 313 -- clans with several, 312 Tattooing, 13 -- and mittens, 99 -- destroys the effect of nakedness even in Europeans, 277 -- effect of, produced by open-work stockings and blouses, 70 -- of the Maoris, 277 -- practised by early Egyptians, 277 -- -- -- European sailors, 277 -- -- -- modern sailors, 277 -- -- -- Jews, 277 -- -- -- practised by old inhabitants of this country, 277 -- scar, as a means of recognition, 276 Tax on elegant dress, 350 Teeth blackened by Hindu women, 273 -- -- -- Japanese women on marriage, 273 Thistle, hood of the Order of the, 230 Thistles, 222 Tie, white at, Eton, 169 Tierra del Fuegians, 11 Tights, 70 -- of acrobats, 286 -- a survival of Florentine hose, 286 -- -- knightly orders, 231 Tippet, 192, 212 Tippets of Doctors of Divinity, scarlet, 212 -- for ministers who are not graduates, 199 Tobit, dog in the Book of, suggested by Toby, 267 Toby, Elizabethan ruff of, 253 -- represented in China by a dragon, 267 -- -- -- France by a cat, 267 -- ruff of, 263 -- suggests the dog in the book of Tobit, 267 Toga, 187 -- replacement of, 192 -- when worn, 187 Toledo, Fourth Council of, 192 Tonsure, 217 -- of priests, 127 Topaz as a detector of poison, 124 Toothpick collar of dress coat, 43, =43= Top-coat, 149 Trades, characteristic dresses of, 320 Trajan, trousers shown on the column of, 78 Tramway drivers, buttons on back of the coats of, 30, =31= Treble, cockade, large, =152= Trencher, 47, 213, =214= Triangles, mystic interlaced, 293 Trimmings of judge's gown, altered in colour by Lord Coleridge, 218 Triskele in the coat-of-arms of the Isle of Man, 119 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Sicily, 119 Trousers, bell-bottom, 347 -- evolution of, 77 -- method of buttoning bishops', 252 -- not worn by Romans, 77 -- of labourers, method of buttoning, 252 -- -- sailors, method of buttoning, 252 -- shown on Trajan's column, 78 -- worn by barbarians, 78, =78= -- -- -- lady gardeners at Kew, 358 -- -- -- Normans, 79 -- -- -- Saxons, 79, =79= -- -- -- women in Siam, 81; see Plate V, facing p. 81 -- -- -- -- -- Persia, 81 -- -- in riding dress by ladies, 358 Trumpeters, State, uniform of, 242 Trumpington, Sir Richard de, brass of, showing chain mail, 234, =234= Trunk hose of clown, 269 -- -- of Knightly Orders, 231 Tudor dresses, shown by playing cards, 231 -- flat cap, 214 Tunic, 16, 17, =17=, 187 -- developed from the shawl, 17, =18= Tunic, Egyptian, 16 -- Greek, 16, =17= -- of monks, 201 -- sleeved, 17 -- survival of the Anglo-Saxon, 288 Tunica alba, 189 Tunicle, 195, 221 Tunics, black, of farriers of Life Guards, 242 -- of Anglo-Saxons compared with a shirt, 288 -- -- Lacedæmonian girls slit down the side, 346 Turban like the dome of a mosque, 50, =50= Turquoises always fashionable, 123 Twenty-Ninth Foot, sergeants of, wear sashes over their left shoulders, 249 Twain, Mark, 341 Tylor, Dr., on finger-rings, 114 -- -- -- painting in war time by civilized races, 273 -- -- -- the tendency to give up savage ornaments, 111 Underclothes, lack of, 360 Ulster, 149 Uniforms, naval, 251 -- of Hussars, 272 -- -- Navy, date from 1767, 251 -- -- sergeant worn by extra drummer, 244 -- military, regular adoption of, 235 -- -- solicitor of Guards, 247 -- service, protectively coloured, 236 -- gay, only used in times of peace, 236 Union Jack on King's colours of Coldstream Guards, 246 Ushabti, models of servants put into Egyptian graves, 268 Veil of a bride, 175 -- -- novice, 202 -- -- nun, 202, =203= -- -- postulants, 202 Vergers, costume of, 218 Vermiform appendix, 3 Vestments, adoption of, by English High Church clergy, 192 -- baptismal, 164 -- ecclesiastical, 184 -- of High Church clergy, coloured, adopted by, 305 -- ornaments of, gradually acquired, 187 -- prescribed by the first Prayer Book of Edward VI, 198 -- prohibited by second Prayer Book of Edward VI, 199 -- of Presbyterian clergy, professional, 185 -- worn at the celebration of the Eucharist, =194= Vestige of a row of buttons, stripe on trousers, =81=, 82 -- -- the coif from wig of a sergeant-at-law, 216, =217= Vestiges, buttons on postilions, 38 -- of the fillet, 52, =52= -- in the animal kingdom, 3 Vickery, Dr. Alice, on children's dress, 165 Villiers-en-Couche, battle of, 244 Voice of Punch, 264 Vowesses, 183 Waist, wasp-like, 323 Wales', Prince of, feathers a hereditary badge, 90 Waistbands, trade in discarded, in Paris, 348 Waistbelts, Professors Roy and Adami, on the beneficial use of, 332 Waistcoat, 148 Waiter, 144 Waiters, evening dress of, 144, 151 Wand of harlequin, 283 Warp, 16 -- of hand loom, 117 Waterloo, battle of, 245 Watermen, badges of, 91 Wearing of talismans by ancient Egyptians, 122 Weddings, superstitions at, 176 Weights, leaden, used by women to flatten their chests, 338 Weeds, old meaning of the word, 182 -- widows, 182 Weft of hand loom, 117 Wells, Blue schools at, 168 Welsh Fusiliers, flash of, 241 Westminster, coats at, 169 Whips, fashions in, 303 Whiskers, effect of bushy, 130 White as mourning, 182 -- clothes of butterman, 320 -- -- -- man cook, 320 Widows, costume of, 198 Wig of coachman, 142, =142= -- of judge, 215, =216= -- -- -- depression in, 215 -- -- doctor in the Punch and Judy show, =264= Wig-bag of Court dress, 227, =229= -- remnant of, 133 -- on liveries of servants, 134, =143= -- of Lord Mayor's coachman, 134, 143, =143= Wigs, barristers', 132 -- coachmen's, 132 -- imitating curly hair, 130 -- footmen's, 132 -- judges, 132 -- legal, 215 -- of East End Jewesses, 127 -- -- Egyptians, 128 -- -- Parliamentary officials, 132 -- -- Serjeants-at-law, 215 -- value of, 228 Wilhelmstahl, battle of, 244 William Rufus, hanging sleeves of the time of, 209 Wimple, 175, =203= -- of Norman ladies, 202 -- of the time of the Plantagenets, 202 Winchester scholars, bands of, 169 Wolfe, General, black worm worn as mourning for, 242 Women, Arab, 122 -- -- ideas of modesty, 207 -- barge, apron of, 150; see Plate VIII, facing p. 150 -- colour preferences of, 307 -- covering their faces, 13, 206 -- dress of, varies little, 16 -- in church without hats, 13, 206 -- -- many places wear trousers, 357 -- married, not to wear caps, 350 -- milk, 150 -- -- yokes of, 110 -- Padaung, metal collars of, 114; see Plate VI, facing p. 114 -- rational dress for, 361 -- riding astride, 359 -- the first to wear clothes, 12 -- Welsh and Italian, age rapidly, 329 Wood, Mr. Walter, on white jackets for soldiers, 243 Woodville, Mr. Caton, on aiguillettes, 240 Worm, black, of East Yorkshire regiment, 242 -- -- mourning for Sir John Moore, 242 -- -- of North Lancashire regiment, 242 -- -- of Somersetshire Light Infantry, 242 -- -- worn as mourning for General Wolfe, 242 -- slow, third eye in, 3 Wristbands, 24 Yellow as mourning, 182 -- a favourite colour of gipsies, 306 -- mourning colour in Oriental countries, 307 -- worn by mediæval Jews, 307 Yeomen of the Guard, badges of, 224, =224=, 225 -- -- -- -- dress of, 223 -- -- -- -- duties of, 225 -- -- -- -- officers, dress of, 225 -- -- -- -- -- of, wear the uniform used in the Peninsular War, 225 -- -- -- -- original uniform of, 225 Yoke, =109=, 110 -- of milk woman, 110 Yoxall, Mr., on wearing of yellow by Jews, 306 PRINTED BY WILLIAM BRENDON AND SON, LTD. PLYMOUTH Transcriber's note Words in italics were surrounded by _underscores_ Le Malade Imaginaire_, by Molière, 261 -- origin of clothes of, 257 -- -- --, hump of, 253, 261 -- ruff of, 262, =263= -- stick of, 260 -- the behaviour of, changes, 264 -- voice of, 264 Pupa, Greek name for a baby in swaddling clothes, 163 Puppet derived from pupa, 163 -- show of fourteenth century, 259, =259= -- shows in China, 259 Puritans and Quakers, fashions set by, 348 Purple as mourning, 182 Puttees, 66, =66=, 328 -- of Indian Army, 66 Pyjamas, 128 -- worn by ladies, 288 Pym, John, bands of, 46, =46= Quakers refused to wear buttons, 119 Queued hair, 134 Quiver carried on a baldric, 106 Ra, 122 Rats, white, 302 Rank once indicated by dress, 319 -- indicated by dress in certain professions, 320 -- not usually shown by dress, 319 Ramillies, battle of, 244 Red cap of liberty, 306 -- not universal in the British Army, 308 -- rag of chulos in the bull fight, 306 -- ribbon of engaged girl, 306 -- rose of Lancaster, 306 -- shirt of the followers of Garibaldi, 306 -- tie of platelayer, 306 Regimental badges, 245 Revers buttoned back, 38, =39= Reynolds, Mr. P. W., on the survival of a button, 248 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- forage cords, 241 Rhead, Mr., on the festal dress of Otaheite, 338 Richard II's time, chaperon of, 157 Rifle Brigade, busby of, 242 -- -- cross belt of, 242 Ring, 195 -- for nose of Hindu ayahs, 111 -- in Ireland, bearing clasped hands, 116 -- of Bishop Agilbert of Paris, 114 Rings, betrothal of Greeks, 115 -- -- -- Romans, 115 -- engagement, 114 -- Egyptian, of blue pottery of faïence, 116 -- Episcopal, 114 -- finger, in Babylon, 114 -- -- -- Egypt, 114 -- for ears, 112 -- gimmal, 115 -- in which the stones stand for letters, 116 -- sacred eye on, 117 -- signet, 83, =85= -- -- in Egypt, 114 -- -- suspended from the neck, 116 -- used as an insignia of rank by Romans, 115 -- wedding, 114 -- -- worn by nuns, 204 -- why worn on third finger, 115 Robe, parliamentary, of the King, 222 -- coronation, eagles on, 222 Robes of companies, 138 -- -- a chancellor of a university, 210 -- -- borough councillors, 138 -- -- the Barons of the Exchequer, 218 -- worn on State occasions, 137 Robinson, Commander, on naval uniforms, 252 Robley, General, collection of Maori heads, 277 Rochet, 199, 221 Roman betrothal rings, 115 -- d'Alexandre, MS. of, 259 Romans cut their beards, 129 -- did not wear trousers, 77 -- shoes of open work of, 62, =63= -- tunic of, 191 -- use rings as insignia of rank, 115 Roses on Queen Victoria's mantle, 222 -- worn by Northumberland Fusiliers, 245 -- -- -- soldiers on St. George's day, 245 Roy and Adami, Professors, on the beneficial use of waist belts and stays, 332 Royalty, fashions arising from deformities of, 344 Rubies always fashionable, 123 Ruff, Elizabethan, of Toby, 253 -- of Toby, 263 -- worn by Punch, 262, =263= Ruffles, 227 Ruffs of Elizabeth's reign, 48, 351 Russia, boots of bridegrooms removed by brides in, 177 Sackcloth as mourning, 181 Safety-pin, 101, =102=, =103=, =104=, 118 Sailor suit, 162 Sailors, European, tattooing practised by, 277 -- kilt of, 252 -- petticoat breeches of, 252 -- petticoat of, 252 -- trousers, method of buttoning, 252 St. Clement on women covering their heads in church, 205, 207 -- George, cross of, 158 -- Gregory the Great, costume of, 188, =188= -- John of Jerusalem, dress of Knights of, 321 -- Lucia, 244 -- Nicholas, dress of, 137 -- -- figure of, shows old dress, 267 -- Patrick, hood of the Order of, 230 Sapphires always fashionable, 123 Saragossa, battle of, 243 Sashes meant to be used as slings, 241 -- of officers, 249 -- worn over the left shoulder by sergeants of the Twenty-Ninth Foot, 249 Satchel carried on a baldric, 106 Savage, the female--a Merveilleuse dress, 346 Savages, colour preferences of, 307 Saxons parted or trimmed their beards, 129 -- wore trousers, 79, =79= Scapular of nuns, 202 Scaramouch, 254, 261 -- a pantomimist, 286 Scarf, 191, 199 -- on ladies' hats, 149 -- pin, 106, 118 Scarves, 192 Sceptre, 221, 304 School, Blue-coat, 167 -- Bristol Red-Maids, 168 -- Wells Grey-Maids, 168 Schools, Green-coat, 168 -- Grey-coat, 168 Scotland, dress of heads of churches in, 200 Scottish Rifles, chaco of, 241 Scots Greys, 245 -- -- take their name from their horses, 303 -- -- Grenadier, caps of, 244 -- Guards, 248 Seal of Solomon, 293 Serapis, crown of, 117 Serjeant-at-law, Lord Lindley, last, 217 -- coif of, 216 -- robes of, 218 -- wig of, 215 Sergeants of Twenty-Ninth Foot wear sashes over their left shoulders, 249 Servant, clothing of master becomes that of, 5, 139 Servants' dress, 139 Sex idea, 165 Shabbies, 268 Shamrock, 222 Shapka, 239 Shaving carried out with flint knives or pieces of shell, 127 -- of heads by Egyptians, 128 -- -- -- -- East End Jewesses, 127 -- -- the whole head, 127 Shawl, 16 -- as a head-dress, 61 -- the ancestral, 15 -- used as kilt by Danish chieftain, 72, =73= Shells as ornaments, 112 -- cowry, on trappings of camels, 297, =299= -- -- -- -- -- donkeys, 297 -- -- -- -- -- Hussars, 297, =298= -- -- -- -- -- mules, 297, =299= Shepherd, plaid of, 312 Shield, 83 -- heart-shaped, derived from a double bird, 296 -- of Black Prince, 87, =89= -- -- David, 293 Shirt front, origin of the, 44 -- survival of the, as an outer garment, 288 Shoe made from a flat piece of hide, 65 -- money in Bulgaria, 177 -- of raw hide, 64, =64= Shoes, broad toed, of Henry VIII's reign, 335 -- gift of, by bridegroom to bride, 177 -- high heels of, 335 -- old, thrown at weddings, 176 -- ornamentation of modern, 62 -- part of wages, 177 -- pieces of old, worn by Eskimos to ensure fruitfulness, 178 -- removed from dead bodies to lay ghosts, 178 -- with preposterously long toes, 350 -- thrown over the heads of the O'Neils by the O'Cahans, 177 -- -- to ensure fruitfulness, 177 Shoulder knot, use of, 238 Siamese women wear trousers, 81; see Plate V, facing p. 81 Sicily, triskele in the coat-of-arms of, 119 Sign of the Crooked Billet, 146 Signs derived from Royal badges, 91 Silk, forbidden, 351 -- stockings, 140, =141= Simkin, Mr. R., explanation of the flash, 133 Sisters, lay, 204 -- Kilburn, 201, 202 -- of Mercy, 201 Skeleton dress, Dutch, 145, =145= Sketch, The, on cockades, 158 Skirt, long, dangerous nowadays, 358 -- -- disseminates germs, 358 Skirts, short, a recognized feature of children's costume, 163 -- simple, of a Danish chieftainess, 73 -- of lady gardeners damaged the plants, 358 Skull on head-dress of Hussars, 146 Skulls, bone inserted into prehistoric, 336 Sleeves, costume dated by, 210 -- detachable, of nuns, 202 -- hanging, 209, =209= -- hanging, of a chancellor of Oxford University, =211= -- slashed, prohibited, 350 -- velvet, of a Proctor, 321 Sling jacket of the Hussars, =81=, 239 Smock-frock, 18, =19= Socks, 66 Soldiers, armlets conferred on, 114 -- boys dressed as, 163 -- dress previous to the Restoration, 236 Solicitor of Guards, uniform of, 247 -- -- -- cocked hat of, 247 Solomon, seal of, 293 Somersetshire Light Infantry, cavalry mess jacket of, 242 Soul remaining in shoes, 178 Spaniard, dress of the, 318 Spatterdashes, 70 Spencer, Herbert, on fashions, 343 Spire, Siamese head-dress compared with a votive, 50, =51= Sporran, =76=, 77 Spur leathers, 235 Staff, cross, 195 -- pastoral, 195 Star, 158 Statuette, bronze, of Punch, 258, =258= Statute cap of Elizabeth, 168 Stays, original intention of, 323 -- Professors Roy and Adami on the beneficial use of, 332 -- theory that they are derived from swaddling clothes, 332 Steen, Jan, bands of, 46, =46= Stick of camel driver survival of a sceptre, 304 Sticks, walking, 124 Stitching carried down the back of gloves, =97=, 98 Stoat, 222 Stockings, 66, 195 -- embroidered, 69, =69= -- leather, worn by William Penn, 70 -- of cloth, 68 -- open work, 69, =69= -- silk, 140, =141= -- yellow, of blue-coat boys, 167 Stocks of leather, 200 Stole, 193, 221 Stoles of deacons, 192 Stone Age, ornaments of, 112 Stones, precious, fashions in, 123 -- -- supposed attributes of, 123 Straps, shoulder, =74=, 75 Straw wisps on horses, 297 Streamers of sailor hat, 53, =53= -- -- Scotch cap, 53, =54= -- on barristers' gowns, 219 -- -- hats, 52, =52= -- -- head-dress of twelfth century, 53, =53= Strings, cap, 149 -- on mitres, 54, =54= Stripe on trousers, vestige of a row of buttons, =81=, 82 Stripes on sleeves of non-commissioned officers, 114 Stud, 118, =119= Suit, sailor, 162 Sumptuary laws, 349, 350, 351 -- -- a hindrance to trade, 351 -- -- usually a failure, 349 Sun-bonnet of barge women, 61; see Plate VIII, facing p. 150 Sun-bonnets of horses, 300 -- -- -- market-garden women, 61 Surcoat, 83 -- of Black Prince, 87, 89 -- -- Henry Duke of Lancaster, 86, =86= Surgeons of the Life Guards wear cocked hats, 247 Superstitions keep up fashions, 349 Surplice, 185, 195, 199 -- academical hood worn by clergy on a, 212 -- Mr. Macalister on the, 185 -- slit in front in order to go over big wigs, 185 Survivals of trade costumes (butchers), 308 -- supposed in naval dress, 252 Suspenders, 71 Surtout, 148 Swaddling clothes still used in the Holy Land, 333 -- -- theory that stays are derived from, 332 -- -- swallow-tail coat, evolution of, 33, =34= -- tails at Harrow, 170 Swastika, 119, 122; see Plate VII, fig.
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          id: 53267
      author: Lord, William Barry
       title: The Corset and the Crinoline A Book of Modes and Costumes from Remote Periods to the Present Time
        date: None
       words: 44960
      flesch: 63
     summary: No doubt this is the best and most easy mode, but still I think there are many young ladies who have never worn tight stays who might have small waists even now if they would only give themselves the trouble. During the French revolutionary movement and in the reign of the First Napoleon, the ladies endeavoured to copy the costume of Ancient Greece, and in 1797 were about as successful in their endeavours as young ladies at fancy dress balls usually are in personating mermaids or fairy queens.
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