Wilton, Mary Margaret Stanley Egerton: The Book of costume or, Annals of fashion: from the earliest period to the present time (London: Henry Colburn, Publisher, 1847)

THE
TOILETTE IN WALES.

CHAPTER XV.
HE ancient costume of
Wales greatly resembled
that of Ireland; cloaks or
mantles were always worn,
and the feet were gene-
rally naked. The Rev.
W. Bingley, speaking of

this country, says:—“The women wear long blue
cloaks, that descend almost to the feet; they are
seldom to be seen without them. In North Wales
they all have hats similar to those of the men, and
blue stockings, without any feet to them, which they
keep down by a kind of loop, that is put round one
of the toes. In the unfrequented parts they seldom
wear any shoes except on Sundays.”