"Ils ont de grands canons, force rubans et plumes."
Les Délices de la France, par M. Savinière d'Alquié. 1670.
The fashion of wearing black lace was introduced into England in the reign of Charles II. "Anon the house grew full, and the candles lit, and it was a glorious sight to see our Mistress Stewart in black and white lace, and her head and shoulders dressed with diamonds."—Pepys's Diary.
"The French have increased among us many considerable trades, such as black and white lace."—England's Great Happiness, etc. Dialogue between Content and Complaint. 1677.
"Item, un autre habit de grosse moire garny de dantelle d'Angleterre noire."—1691. Inv. de Madame de Simiane. Arch. Nat., M. M. 802.
"Of this custom, a relic may still be found at the Court of Turin, where ladies wear lappets of black lace. Not many years since, the wife of a Russian minister, persisting to appear in a suit of Brussels point, was courteously requested by the Grand Chamberlain to retire" (1869).