Answers to Questions on Hats and Head-Gear
1. The Miss Barkers in Cranford.-2. Samuel Pepys in his Diary.-3. Rosalind refers to the woollen caps which were ordered by statute in the reign of Elizabeth to be worn on Sundays aid holidays by all except ladies, knights, and nobles.-4. Because(so he writes) " Rose crossed the road In her latest new bonnet."- 5. Henry V.-6. Thomas Carlyle in Sorter Reeartus.-7. Tile expression means " to have failed in business."-8. The pastor in The Swiss Family Robinson.-9. The Cap of Maintenance was, and still is, carried before the Sovereign at coronations ; it is made of crimson velvet and ermine.-10. Eliza : Edmund Spenser described it in A Ditty in Praise of Eliza Queen of the Shephenis. -11. The Bonnet Rouge was the cap worn by revolutionaries during the French Revolution ; it was shaped like a man's night- cap.-12. Dandies carried their hats on the ends of long canes. .4-77=13. Budyard , Kipling itk, Marglatay ; he refers to the " Burma girl."
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