WHEN MEN WORE FINERY.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 1 November 1924, Page 6

WHEN MEN WORE FINERY.

A WIFE’S DESCRIPTION. Thus did Lady Fanshawe describe the appearance of her husband, Sir Richard Fanshawe, at a great ceremony: “Then came my husband, in a very rich suit of deaths, of a dark fillamot brocade, laced with silver and gold lace, nine laces, every one as broad as my hand, and a' little silver and gold lace laid between them, both of very curious workmanship. His suit was trimmed with scarlet taffeta ribhands ; his stockings of white silk, upon long scarlet ones; his shoes black, with scarlet shoe-strings and garters. His linen very fine, laced with rich Flanders lace. A black heaver, buttoned on the left side with a jewel of twelve hundred) pounds value. A rich curious upright gold chain, made in the Indies, at which hung the king his master’s picture richly set with diamonds, and cost three hundred pounds, which His Majesty, in his great grace and favour, had been pleased to give him at his coming from Portugal. On his fingers he wore two rich rings. His gloves were trimmed with the same ribbands as his cloaths, and his whole family were richly clothed according to then-, several qualities.”