Their
fancy jackets and breeches were loose. Boots were wide and folded
over at the top. Young men wore earrings and painted their faces.
A lady wore her hair in ringlets on each side of her face. Her
dress was fitted at the waist, with a peaked bodice. It was low at
the shoulders with a scoop neckline in front. She often wore much
lace, especially at the neck down to the bust line. Her outer
dress and under-skirt that was revealed in front were full and
made of satin and stiff silk or velvet. Only hose of silk was worn
at court.
A majority of prosperous industrial towns and fee farmers, led
sometimes by lords or old landed gentry were Puritans. They
dressed plainly and in somber colors such as black, grey, and
buff, with no ornamentation except plain white collars and cuffs
of linen rather than of lace. Wool replaced silk and velvet. No
jewelry was worn. The Puritan women also wore long white aprons.
The Puritan men for a time had short-cut hair. The Puritan-
Parliamentarians were given the name "Roundheads" after the crop-
headed London apprentices whose rioting had marked every stage of
the conflict between king and Parliament. The Puritan women
smoothed their hair back into little knobs and covered their hair
and head with a white covering. Both Puritan men and women wore
broad-rimed hats and plain shoes. The ordinary country man wore a
felt hat, broadcloth coat, woolen trousers, hand-knitted worsted
stockings, and plain, strong shoes.
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