In ‘The Tempest’ one may hear of rye-straw hats, of gaberdines, rapiers, and a pied fool’s costume.
In ‘The Two Gentlemen of Verona’ we hear:
‘Why, then, your ladyship must cut your hair.’
‘No, girl; I’ll tie it up in silken strings
With twenty odd conceited true-love knot;
To be fantastic may become a youth
Of greater time than I shall show to be.’
Also:
‘Since she did neglect her looking-glass,
And threw her sun-expelling mask away.’
Many ladies at this time wore velvet masks. ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’ gives us a thrummed hat, a muffler or linen to hide part of the face, gloves, fans. Falstaff says:
‘When Mistress Bridget lost the handle of her fan,
I took it up my honour thou had’st it not.’
Also:
‘The firm fashion of thy foot would give an excellent motion to thy fait in a semicircled farthingale.’