shirt.

A long tunic, open at the neck, falling to the ground, with tight
sleeves to the wrist.

A short tunic reaching only to the knees, more open at the neck than
the long tunic, generally fastened by a brooch.

Tight, well-fitting drawers or loose trousers.

Bandages or garters crossed from the ankle to the knee to confine the
loose trousers or ornament the tights.

Boots of soft leather which had an ornamental band at the top.

Socks with an embroidered top.

Shoes of cloth and leather with an embroidered band down the centre
and round the top.

Shoes of skin tied with leather thongs.

Caps of skin or cloth of a very plain shape and without a brim.

Belts of leather or cloth or silk.

Semicircular cloaks fastened as previously described, and often lined
with fur.

The clothes of every colour, but with little or no pattern; the
patterns principally confined to irregular groups of dots.

And to think that in the year in which Henry died Nizami visited the
grave of Omar Al Khayyam in the Hira Cemetery at Nishapur!

[Illustration: A CHILD OF THE TIME OF HENRY I.

It is only in quite recent years that there have been quite distinct
dresses for children, fashions indeed which began with the ideas for
the improvement in hygiene. For many centuries children were
dressed, with slight modifications, after the manner of their
parents, looking like little men and women, until in the end they
arrived at the grotesque infants of Hogarth's day, powdered and
patched, with little stiff skirted suits and stiff brocade gowns,
with little swords and little fans and, no doubt, many pretty airs
and graces.

One thing I have never seen until the early sixteenth century, and
that is girls wearing any of the massive head-gear of their parents;
in all other particulars they were the same.]

THE WOMEN

[Illustration: {A woman of the time of Henry I.}]

The greatest change in the appearance of the women was in the
arrangement of the hair.

After a hundred years or more of headcloths and hidden hair suddenly
appears a head of hair. Until now a lady might have been bald for all
the notice she took of her hair; now she must needs borrow hair to add
to her own, so that her plaits shall be thick and long.

It is easy to see how this came about. The hair, for convenience, had
always been plaited in two plaits and coiled round the head, where it
lay concealed by the wimple. One day some fine