Thank you for this. I've had other things going on and have not been able to follow up my original question, but slops = women's mourning clothes makes a lot of sense given the original context.
Allison T. On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 7:50 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Message: 10 > Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:51:33 -0800 (PST) > From: Kimiko Small <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [h-cost] slops for women? > To: Historical Costume <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > Just an update... I've been perusing through some > Google books, and found this one. > A Cyclopaedia of Costume Or Dictionary of Dress... > By James Robinson Planché > I think you can click this and view it: > http://books.google.com/books?id=f419oz-NWDgC&rview=1 > Page 469 includes an entry on Slops, which gives more > illumination of the word with regards to women's > mourning clothing. > > "That slops were not breeches as late as the reign of > Henry VII., is evident from the ordinances issued by > his mother, Margaret Countess of Richmond, for "the > reformation of apparell for great estates of women in > the tyme of mourninge," wherein the Queen's > gentlewomen are directed to wear " sloppes," which are > explained to mean mourning cassocks "for ladies and > gentlewomen, not open before." In the first year of > Henry VIII, also, according to Hall, upon Shrove > Sunday, after a goodly "banket" in the Parliament > Chamber at Westminster, a masque was presented in > which, amongst many other fancifully attired > personages (the King being one), there entered six > ladies, two of whom were in garments of "crymosyne and > purpull, made like long slops, embroidered and fretted > with golde after the antique fascion ; and over the > slop was a shorte garment of cloth of golde, scant to > the knee, fascioned like a tabard," &c. But though > they were not breeches,..." > > There's a lot more, but that gets the drift with > regards to mourning clothing. > > Kimiko _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
