In ‘As You Like It’ one may show a careless desolation by ungartered hose, unbanded bonnet, unbuttoned sleeve, and untied shoe.
‘The Taming of the Shrew’ tells of serving-men:
‘In their new fustian and their white jackets.... Let their blue coats be brushed, and their garters of an indifferent knit.’
Also we have a cap ‘moulded on a porringer.’
‘Love’s Labour’s Lost’ tells of:
‘Your hat penthouse-like o’er the shop of your eyes; with your arms crossed on your thin belly doublet like a rabbit on a spit; or your hands in your pocket like a man after the old painting.’
‘All’s Well that Ends Well’:
‘Why dost thou garter up thy arms o’ this fashion? Dost make a hose of thy sleeves?’
‘Yonder’s my lord your son with a patch of velvet on’s face: whether there be a scar under’t or no, the velvet knows.... There’s a dozen of ’em, with delicate fine hats and most courteous feathers, which bow the head and nod at every man.’
In ‘Henry IV.,’ Part II., there is an allusion to the blue dress of Beadles. Also: