Dress

The boots of the time of Louis XIV were often two feet broad at the top. Silk hats began to supe rsede the old-style beaver or wool hats in 1820. Among the Greeks breeches indicated slavery. A free man never wore them. The doublet was a close-fitting coat introduced into France from :taly about 1100. ,The leathsrn apron worn by the jlacksmith is raentioned by Pliny as n use in his time. From the tïiirteenth to the seveneenth century a blue .coat in Engand was the sign of a servant. A cloth for the head or face was fornerly called a coverchief, just as one br the hand was called a handkerchief. The first article of human clothing mentioned in history was an apron. t is spoken of in the book of Genesis, B. C 4004.