THE DANDY FIVE CENTURIES AGO
Men's dress to-day is staid and Quaker-like compared With that of the fourteenth century. In full flower, an exquisite of that day hobbled along upon shoes of extraordinary length, sharppointed toes, generally turned up and fastened to the wearer’s knee with gold or silver chains; his hose were- of different colours, one being white and the other red, blue, or any colour opposed to the white; his unmentionables were somewhat short, scarcely reaching to the middle of the thigh ; his coat, or tho article then serving for that portion of his dress, was divided longitudinally into two equal portions, one- of those being white, and the- other blue, or black ; his yellow beard, long and pointed, being extended “goatee” ; and his head was enveloped in a richly ornamented hood, buttoned underneath his chin.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 30 November 1933, Page 10
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138THE DANDY FIVE CENTURIES AGO Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 30 November 1933, Page 10
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