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THE TOILETTE IN ENGLAND.
dress during this reign, for even the clergy had caught
the fashionable infection, though some chroniclers
assert that they did not attempt to wear silk and em-
broidery till Cardinal Wolsey set them the example.
Authors of that, and indeed later periods, wrote much
and strongly against the prevalence of confounding the
different degrees of society, by allowing all ranks to
wear the same dress ; much also was preached, writ-
ten, and said, against “ pride of hair,” as an ancient
author termed the profusion of hair worn at this time,
and the extravagant manner in which it was “plaited,
braided, bowed, and combed.”
Henry the Eighth is represented in an old picture,
at the time of his interview
with Francis the First, when
both monarchs displayed every
kind of magnificence and ex-
travagance, as habited in a
garment composed of cloth of
composed of rubies and pearls,
set in alternate rows, and on
his breast hung a rich jewel
of St. George, suspended by
a riband. His boots were of
yellow leather, and his hat of
black velvet, with a white
feather turning over the brim,
and beneath it a broad band of rubies, emeralds,
and diamonds, mixed with pearls. His pages were
splendidly attired in crimson, with the union Rose
embroidered on the back of the doublet, between a
gold, over a jacket of rose-co-
loured velvet. His collar was
THE TOILETTE IN ENGLAND.
dress during this reign, for even the clergy had caught
the fashionable infection, though some chroniclers
assert that they did not attempt to wear silk and em-
broidery till Cardinal Wolsey set them the example.
Authors of that, and indeed later periods, wrote much
and strongly against the prevalence of confounding the
different degrees of society, by allowing all ranks to
wear the same dress ; much also was preached, writ-
ten, and said, against “ pride of hair,” as an ancient
author termed the profusion of hair worn at this time,
and the extravagant manner in which it was “plaited,
braided, bowed, and combed.”
Henry the Eighth is represented in an old picture,
at the time of his interview
with Francis the First, when
both monarchs displayed every
kind of magnificence and ex-
travagance, as habited in a
garment composed of cloth of
composed of rubies and pearls,
set in alternate rows, and on
his breast hung a rich jewel
of St. George, suspended by
a riband. His boots were of
yellow leather, and his hat of
black velvet, with a white
feather turning over the brim,
and beneath it a broad band of rubies, emeralds,
and diamonds, mixed with pearls. His pages were
splendidly attired in crimson, with the union Rose
embroidered on the back of the doublet, between a
gold, over a jacket of rose-co-
loured velvet. His collar was