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Updated: May 15, 2025
There are the young women, with "silk or tiffany hoods or scarfs," "embroidered or needle-worked caps," "immoderate great sleeves," "cut works," a mystery, "slash apparel," another mystery, "immoderate great vayles, long wings," etc., mystery on mystery, but all recorded in the statutes, which forbid these splendors to persons of mean estate.
Her dress Felix had scanned many a crank in his day was not so alarming as it had once seemed to Clara; its coarse-woven, deep-blue linen and needle-worked yoke were pleasing to him, and he could hardly take his gaze from the kingfisher-blue band or fillet that she wore round that silver-threaded black hair.
The collar is turned down over a black silk riband, knotted a la Byron; but a tropic sun has more to do with this fashion than any desire to imitate the sailor-poet. Over this shirt stretch silk braces elaborately needle-worked, and still further adorned by buckles of pure gold.
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