Aberdeen Evening Express 107
Ackerman’s Repository 85
aglets 153
Alexandra, Princess 111
Amendralejo 131
Amis, Hardy 143
Anatomie of Abuses, The 24, 31, 32, 33, 44 see also Stubbes
‘Ape’s Laugh’ 30
armour 2, 17, 18, 22, 28, 29, 95, 108
arsenic 156
Ascot 77
Ashelford, Jane 35
Asquith, Cynthia 112
barleycorns 159
Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette 125
bents 21
Beau Monde, Le 85
Bertha collars 40
Bishop of Exeter 33
Bishop sleeve 111
bombast 24
Book of Lismore 6
braguette 26
bum roll 36
bustle 68, 102, 103, 106, 107, 108, 110, 148
‘cart–wheel’ 35
Cassanova 64
Castlemaine, Lady 47
Catherine of Aragon 19, 35, 41
Chanel 133
Charles I 41
Chester Chronicle 96
Chester Courant 83
cocaine tooth paste 156
codpiece 16, 17, 22, 26, 27, 28, 29
Constantinople 38
cork rump 67–70
‘Corps pique’ 36
corset 22, 24, 31, 36, 37, 38, 44, 74, 81, 83, 87, 88, 97, 98, 99, 100, 102, 103, 106, 110, 112, 114, 115, 131, 146, 148
cotehardie 8, 9 see also Hell’s Windows
Covent Garden 65
Crimea 97
crinoline 67, 88–97, 102, 106, 110, 131, 146, 148
‘crisis’ clothes 138
cutpurse 66
Dalton, James 65
Darwin, Charles 110
‘Dead Spaniard’ 30
‘Devil in the Head’ 30
Dickens, Charles 107
Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue 69
Dietrich, Marlene 133, 137, 138
Dinghen Van Der Plasse, Mistress 31–2
divorce 69
‘divorce’ corset 115
doublet 16, 17, 18, 22–4, 37, 38, 40–1, 153
Dundee, Perth & Cupar Advertiser 88
Dundee Tram Co. 132
‘dying Monkey’ 30
Edward III 16
Edward IV 17
Emma, Lady Hamilton 85
‘English Monster’ (ruff) 32
Ernulf of Rochester 4
Essex Standard 93
eyebrow pencil 141
farthingale 19, 21, 33, 35–9, 67, 106 see also vardingale
femoralia 2
Foot Guards 59
French gowns 38
galligaskin/gally-hose breeches 24
gambeson 17
Gentleman’s Magazine 57
‘Gigot’ 111
Gloucestershire Echo 141
Grays Inn Lane 65
Great Regency Shelf 81
Grecian bend 102
Gros, Pierre de 10
‘Growing Old Gracefully’ 158
Guardian, the 75
Hair Powder Act 64
Hampshire Chronicle 54
Hampstead 138
Harberton, Viscountess 103
harem pants 133
harlot 10
Harper’s Bazaar 146
Harper’s Weekly 98
Hartnell, Norman 143
hat pin 119
Hawkwood, Sir John 18
Henrietta Maria, Princess 41
Hepburn, Katharine 133
Honorius, Emperor 2
hoop 19, 21, 38, 65–8, 91, 93–5, 97, 102, 106
Hull Daily Mail 137
Hull Packet 83
Huntingdon, William 95
‘imbrauderer’s chair’ 37
‘impure waist’ 75
Kenelm Digby, Sir 50
‘Kiss Me Darling’ 30
Lady’s Monthly Museum 85
Lily Elsie 118
linen 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 16, 17, 22, 64, 85, 89, 96
‘lion’s colour’ 29
Liverpool Daily Post 97
Liverpool Echo 110
London’s Morning Post 86
‘Looking Young’ 157
‘Love Longing’ 30
‘Make Do and Mend’ 143, 144, 146
Manchester Evening News 106
maxi-skirt 150
‘merry widow’ (dye colour) 30
Merville, Lord Humphrey 29
Metropolitan 100
mini-skirt 150
miniver 14
Mirror of the Graces, The 83
mono-bosom look 115
Montez, Madame Lola (Countess of Landsfeld) 83
Moore, Thomas 3
Morning Herald 81
‘Mortal Sin’ 30
‘motley’ 29
‘mouchete’ 49
muslin 13, 31, 80, 83, 85, 86, 90, 108
Napoleon 75
‘Natty Scratch’ 59
neck cloth 78
Newcastle Courant 62
Newgate Calendar 59
New York Times 133
Nightingale, Florence 125, 130, 131, 150
Norfolk Chronicle 63
obesity 157
Old Bailey 64
‘old medley’ 30
‘orange-tawney’ 29
Orderic Vitalis 3
Overbury, Sir Thomas 38
Pall Mall Gazette 106
Palmerston, Lord 77
‘pancake’ hat 106
peascod doublet 24
‘pease-Porrige Tawnie’ 30
petticoat 19, 21, 38, 57, 64, 67, 68, 74, 80, 81, 89, 90–1, 93–4, 96, 103, 112, 113, 146, 155
pickpocket 64, 65 see also cutpurse
Pictorial Review 129
Pig in a Poke 57
pigaches 16
‘plunket’ 30
‘pneumonia blouse’ 119
pocket 51, 64–7, 89, 95, 106, 128, 138, 140, 143, 144, 149
‘poking-sticks’ 31
Pompadour, Madame de 51
Poulaine 16
Public Advertiser 65
‘puke’ 29
Punch 88, 89, 92, 93, 107, 111
Purity Brigade 119
puttees 2
Quant, Mary 150
quicksilver 34
Raleigh, Sir Walter 25
Rational Dress Society 103, 106
Regency period 50, 70, 73–5, 77, 81, 85, 86, 133
Rogers, Samuel (poet) 62
‘romper suit’ 138
rouge 34
Royal Cornwall Gazette 108
ruaman 6
Ruscelli 34
‘S’ bend corset 102, 110, 114, 115
sable 14
‘sad new colour’ 29
safeguards (outer skirts) 38
St Bartholomew’s Fair 64
Salisbury and Winchester Journal 80
‘sallet’ helmet 10
Salvation Army 127
sarcanet 154
Satan’s Curse (or Satan’s Claw) 16
Schweitzer & Davidson 75
‘scratch face’ 30
‘sharper’ (pickpocket) 64
Shaw, George Bernard 131
‘sheep’s colour’ 29
Shoreditch Observer 91
Sibthorpe, Robert 35
silk 14, 21, 40, 41, 45, 49, 51, 59, 74, 83, 86, 95, 96, 106, 112, 132, 140, 141, 143
‘slops’ 24
‘smoked Ox’ 30
Spencer, Earl 86
Spurgin Women’s Suffrage Lecture 134
‘stay busks’ 152
Steele, Sir Richard 49
steeple headdress 10
stockings 6, 8, 18, 24, 65, 75, 77, 112, 132, 140, 141, 142
stomachers 38
Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette 102
syphilis 26
Tamworth Herald 127
thinness 157
Thompson, W. S. 90
tie wig 58
Tournure 103
Town and Country magazine 67
Treves, Dr Sir Frederick 88
trousers 1, 2, 77, 80, 133, 135, 137–40, 142–3, 146
tuke 21
Turner, Mrs Anne 40
utility clothing 143
vair 14
vendeuse 115
Venerable Bede 3
Vindolanda Tablets 2
Walpole, Horace 138
Weekly Journal 59
Weekly Miscellany 69
Wellington, Duke of 77
Wells Journal 112
Wilde, Oscar 106
William of Malmesbury 4
wool 5, 6, 8, 13, 14, 16, 17, 21, 22, 38, 55
Worcestershire Chronicle 91
Worth, Charles Frederick 106