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
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