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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ...by which the pinching was done to the washed garment by means of a heated iron. Pinched sleeves, pinched partlets, pinched shirts, pinched wimples, pinched ruffs, are often referred to, all washable garments. The good wife of Bath wore a wimple which was y-pinched full seemly. Henry VIII wore a pinched habitshirt of finest lawn, and his fine, healthy skin glowed pink through the folds of the lawn after his hearty exercise at tennis and all kinds of athletic sports, for which he had thrown off his doublet. We are taught to deem him a spot of grease and blood on England's page. There was more muscle than fat in him; he could not be restrained from constant, vio John Lilburne. lent, dangerous exercise; this was one of the causes of the admiration of his subjects. The pinched partlet made a fine undergarment for the slashed doublet. So full, so close, were these pinchings, that one author complained that men wearing them could not draw their bowstrings well. It was said that the pinched partlet and puffed sleeves of a courtier would easily make a lad a doublet and cloak. In my chapter on Children's Dress I tell of the pinched shirt worn by Governor Bradford when an infant, and give an illustration of it. Aglets or tags were a pretty fashion revived for women's wear three years ago. Under Stuart reign, these aglets were of gold or silver, and set with precious stones such as pear-shaped pearls. For ordinary wear they were of metal, silk, or leather. They secured from untwisting or ravelling the points which were worn for over a century; these were ties or laces of ribbon, or woollen yarn or leather, decorated with tags or aglets at one end. Points were often home-woven, and were deemed a pretty gift to a friend. T...

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