Draft of a paper concerning the history of dress, undated (Series 87.02) - No. 0063

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                          Picadilly
in the Reign of Richd the 2nd the Ladies wore a Gorget Calld a Chevesail for as yet they used no bands about the neck  Camdens Remains p 255
Gorget  a womans neck dress  Baileys dict
Pickadille in French Peccadille  a Peice fastend about the Top of the Collar of a Doublet  menshau dict
"The gorget Standing up being Supported by wyers & a kind of Roll calld a P which they Call a Piccadilla"   Randle Holmes
Evelyn in his description of the [Neif] that [need] al if ch 1st & Henrietta [Triena] says about her Shoulders a band or gorget Plaited & Standing up Spred like a Fan p. 106

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