10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNDERPROPPER»
Discover the use of
underpropper in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
underpropper and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Accessories of Dress: An Illustrated Encyclopedia
These standing, open collars were both plain and lace trimmed, and, like ruffs, in
order to maintain a correct position, were sometimes supported by an
understructure known as “underpropper” or “supertasse.” The testy Stubbes,
writing of the ...
Katherine Lester, Bess Viola Oerke, 2013
2
The Lodger Shakespeare: His Life on Silver Street
17. The. underpropper. We imagine Shakespeare on the periphery of the
Mountjoy workshop, observing those details of the tiremaker's trade which
surface in his texts. To see him in our mind's eye we borrow from various images
of him, chief ...
3
Modern English Statesmen
mies; even with the Roman Babylon, of which the Spaniard is the great
underpropper. In this respect we fight the Lord's battles; and in this the Scriptures
are most plain." The Scriptures had evidently not been so plain when it was
necessary to ...
George Robert Stirling Taylor, 1921
WHISK 185 neckerchieves, and sometimes of a standing band supported by an
underpropper, in the time of Charles II (see Commonwealth). The whisk is
sometimes equated with the golilla, a Spanish form of the Medici collar, made of
heavily ...
5
Labors Lost: Women's Work and the Early Modern English Stage
Philip stubbes complains of these “monsterous ruffes” that “stand a full quarter of
a yarde (and more) from their necks,” in many layers, “one beneath another,” and
of the “supportasse or underpropper” that “beare[s] up the whole frame & body ...
6
Clothing Through American History: The British Colonial Era
Both styles were pinned to a rigid frame of shaped pasteboard or wire stiffened
with paper or baleen variously called a supportasse, pickadil, or underpropper.
Tied to the back of the gown with ribbon points, the supporter was covered in a ...
Kathleen A. Staples, Madelyn C. Shaw, 2013
7
Historic Costumes for the Stage
Very large closed ruffs and sometimes standing ruffs need an underpropper. Fig.
16b and c show an underpropper (made in the studio by Miss Florence Drake, p.
238) which proved very satisfactory. It is of heavy iron wire. Bend the first end of ...
8
Historic costume for the amateur theatre and how to make it
They were worn almost exclusively by men — and dandies at that — and on
account of the wide circumference they required a shoulder support at the back,
which was called an 'underpropper', which tipped up the ruff from behind, forming
an ...
9
An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber: Comedian, and Late ...
Nay, after that, I had a third Chance too, equally as good, of becoming an
Underpropper of the State. How, at last, Ibecame to be none of all these, the
Sequel will inform you. About the Year 1687, I was taken from School to stand at
the Election ...
10
The inheritance, by the author of Marriage. By the author of ...
The other pillar is a certaine device made of wiers crested for the purpose,
whipped either over with golde thred, silver, or silke, and this he calleth a
underpropper. Beyond all this, theye have a farther fetche, nothynge inferior to
the reste, as, ...
Susan Edmonstone Ferrier, 1841
