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THE TOILETTE IN ENGLAND.
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dragon and a greyhound. Their breeches and sleeves
also were slashed, and curiously puffed out with fine
cambric, and they had white stockings and shoes.
The exact time when ruffs were first worn is not
known. It is said they were invented by a Spanish
lady, to hide a wen upon her neck ; it is, however,
certain that they were much in fashion in the reign
of Henry the Eighth, and flourished greatly through
this and several succeeding reigns.
The doublet was now worn with slashes and cuts,
and the waistband, reaching just below the arm-pits,
had eight kinds of skirts appended to it.
In a picture by Holbein of the lovely but unfortu-
nate Anne Boleyn, we see the
dress she wore on the day she
became Queen of England. It
is much the same as the one
we have described as worn by
Elizabeth. Stowe gives the
following account of another,
in which she appeared about
that time : “ Then,” says he,
“ proceeded forth the queene,
in a circote and robe of purple
velvet, furred with ermine, in
her hayre coife and circlet.
After her followed ladies,
being lords’ wives, which had
circotes of scarlet, with narrow sleeves, the breast all
lettice, with barres of pouders, according to their
degrees ; and over that they had mantles of scarlet,
furred, and every mantle had lettice about the necke,
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dragon and a greyhound. Their breeches and sleeves
also were slashed, and curiously puffed out with fine
cambric, and they had white stockings and shoes.
The exact time when ruffs were first worn is not
known. It is said they were invented by a Spanish
lady, to hide a wen upon her neck ; it is, however,
certain that they were much in fashion in the reign
of Henry the Eighth, and flourished greatly through
this and several succeeding reigns.
The doublet was now worn with slashes and cuts,
and the waistband, reaching just below the arm-pits,
had eight kinds of skirts appended to it.
In a picture by Holbein of the lovely but unfortu-
nate Anne Boleyn, we see the
dress she wore on the day she
became Queen of England. It
is much the same as the one
we have described as worn by
Elizabeth. Stowe gives the
following account of another,
in which she appeared about
that time : “ Then,” says he,
“ proceeded forth the queene,
in a circote and robe of purple
velvet, furred with ermine, in
her hayre coife and circlet.
After her followed ladies,
being lords’ wives, which had
circotes of scarlet, with narrow sleeves, the breast all
lettice, with barres of pouders, according to their
degrees ; and over that they had mantles of scarlet,
furred, and every mantle had lettice about the necke,