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NEEDLEWORK IN COSTUME.
accommodated at all, even in a royal wardrobe, with
fitting respect to the integrity of puffs and furbelows.
But clothes were not formerly kept in drawers,
where but few can be laid with due regard to the
safety of each, but were hung up on wooden pegs,
in a room appropriated to the sole purpose of re-
ceiving them ; and though such cast-off things as
were composed of rich substances were occasionally
ripped for domestic uses (viz., mantles for infants,
vests for children, and counterpanes for beds), ar-
ticles of inferior quality were suffered to hang by the
walls till age and moths had destroyed what pride
would not permit to be worn by servants or poor
relations. To this practice, also, does Shakspeare
allude : Imogen exclaims, in ‘ Cymbeline,’—
“ Poor 1 am stale, a garment out of fashion;
And, for I am richer than to hang by the walls,
I must be ripp’d—”
The following regulations may be interesting;
and the knowledge of them will doubtless excite
feelings of joy and gratitude in our fair readers that
they are born in an age where “ will is free,” and
the dustman’s wife may, if it so please her, outshine
the duchess, without the terrors of Parliament be-
fore her eyes:—
“By the Queene.
“Whereas the Queene’s Maiestie, for avoyding of
the great inconvenience that hath growen and dayly
doeth increase within this her Realme, by the in-
ordinate exccsse in Apparel, hath in her Princely
wisdome and care for reformation thereof, by sundry
NEEDLEWORK IN COSTUME.
accommodated at all, even in a royal wardrobe, with
fitting respect to the integrity of puffs and furbelows.
But clothes were not formerly kept in drawers,
where but few can be laid with due regard to the
safety of each, but were hung up on wooden pegs,
in a room appropriated to the sole purpose of re-
ceiving them ; and though such cast-off things as
were composed of rich substances were occasionally
ripped for domestic uses (viz., mantles for infants,
vests for children, and counterpanes for beds), ar-
ticles of inferior quality were suffered to hang by the
walls till age and moths had destroyed what pride
would not permit to be worn by servants or poor
relations. To this practice, also, does Shakspeare
allude : Imogen exclaims, in ‘ Cymbeline,’—
“ Poor 1 am stale, a garment out of fashion;
And, for I am richer than to hang by the walls,
I must be ripp’d—”
The following regulations may be interesting;
and the knowledge of them will doubtless excite
feelings of joy and gratitude in our fair readers that
they are born in an age where “ will is free,” and
the dustman’s wife may, if it so please her, outshine
the duchess, without the terrors of Parliament be-
fore her eyes:—
“By the Queene.
“Whereas the Queene’s Maiestie, for avoyding of
the great inconvenience that hath growen and dayly
doeth increase within this her Realme, by the in-
ordinate exccsse in Apparel, hath in her Princely
wisdome and care for reformation thereof, by sundry