Actually, there seems to have been resistance to wearing modern blouses among women, who often wore it under compulsion.
They wore patriotic colours, red, white, and blue, and their jackets buttoned at the back, as a daily, practical exercise in fraternal interdependence.
He studied times, places, different types of beggars - almost even the clothes that they wore - to heighten the effect that they created.
Lots of people wore crosses on their clothing in the thirteenth century and while it proclaimed them penitents it did not make them outcasts.
The relative decline of the radical press as the 1850s wore on meant that the potential political power of the novel was immense.
Subjects wore a black eye-patch over the non-dominant eye.
Over time, they were unable to avoid widespread accusations of treachery and betrayal, and this wore them down.
Men and women carried their swearing as lightly as they wore their cloaks...
