here notice a few of the turbans of Africa and Asia: The women of the middle and higher orders of Egypt dress elegantly; under their shirt, which is like the men's, they wear very wide trousers of silk, cotton, or muslin, coloured or white; and over them a long vest closely resembling that of the men. A shawl or embroidered handkerchief is put loosely round the waist as a girdle. The outer robe is of cloth, velvet, or silk, embroidered with gold or silk, and generally resembles that of the men; though, instead of this robe, a jacket is often worn. The head-dress consists of an under and upper cap, round which is tightly wound a kerchief of printed or painted muslin or crape, and to it is attached muslin veil embroidered and spangled, and hanging from the back of the head to the ground. The hair is worn plaited or braided down the back, with attached golden ornaments; and two full locks hang down on esch side of the face. Stockings or socks are rarely worn, but inner shoes of red or morocco, and over them yellow slippers, with high pointed toes; or wooden clogs, from four to nine inches in height, richly ornamented. Such is the in-door dress of the Egyptian ladies. When abroad, they wear over this dress a large loose silk gown of pink, rose, or violet colour; a sort of silk robe tied over the head (black for the married, and white for the unmarried), and a long white muslin face-veil, reaching from under the eyes nearly to the feet. Yellow morocco short boots or socks are worn under the yellow slippers. This dress resembles an unsightly disguise, though it displays the eyes, which are always the most beautiful feature of an Egyptian woman. The poorer class of women wear trousers, a blue shirt, a coarse black face-veil, and a dark blue muslin or linen head-veil. A very large blue, white, and red plaid wrapper is also worn by the middle class. The head-dress is a black silk kerchief, bordered red and yellow, and tied diagonally in a knot behind. The shoes are of red morocco, round toed; but in Upper Egypt shoes and the face-veil are rarely seen; and some of the poorest women of Cairo never conceal their faces. But the most common female dress in Egypt is merely a blue shirt and head-veil; and in Upper Egypt, some of the women envelop themselves in a dark brown woollen wrapper and head-veil, which, though dull, is picturesque. Mr Lane tells us that "the women of Egypt deem it more incumbent upon them to cover the upper and back part of the head than the face, and more requisite to conceal the face than most other parts of the person." He adds, that he has seen in this country women but half covered with miserable rags, and others still nearer a state of nudity. AMERICAN COSTUMES. In all those portions of America, including Canada and the United States, which have been long possessed by an English race, the costumes of England and France prevail, any differences which exist being only of minor importance. Peculiarity of costume on the American continent has therefore to be sought for among the native Indian tribes, and among the descendants of Spanish or Portuguese settlers. North American Indians.-The Indian savages, or red men of the forests and prairies of North America, occupying the vast region to the west of the Missouri, present the most interesting specimens of costume in the New World, enthusiastically described as "worthy the pencils of Raphael or Hogarth." The condition of these extraordinary people is, indeed, highly favourable to the distinctions of dress; they are divided into tribes (of whom great numbers are warriors), which are much less broken than the feudalism of those countries of Europe in which costumes are most strongly marked. The general dress of these tribes consists of a skin shirt, a robe of hide, leggings, and mocassins, and equipments and decorations in great variety. The fashion of long hair is almost universal; but, contrary to European usage, the women are not permitted to indulge in this taste. The length of the hair of a chief (who received his name and office in consequence) is stated to have measured ten feet six inches. In the costliness and elegance of their costumes the Blackfeet and the Crows are, perhaps, unrivalled. The materials of their dresses are nearly the same; but there is a distinctive mode in each tribe of stitching or ornamenting with porcupine quills, which are the principal decorations of all their fine dresses. The attire of a chief of the Blackfeet consists of a shirt or tunic of deer skins, the seams embroidered with porcupine quills, and fringed with the locks of the hair of victims slain by the chief in battle. The leggings are of the same material and trimming, as are also the mocassins. Over all is worn a robe of young buffalo-skin with the hair on, the inside being garnished with porcupine quills and rude representations of battles. A long pipe, bow and quiver, lance and shield, complete his equipments. He is almost always on his horse's back; and thus armed and equipped, his appearance is very picturesque. A Crow sometimes wears a magnificent crest, or head-dress, made of the quills of the war-eagle and ermine skins; and his horse is covered with a manycoloured net terminating with a crupper, embossed and fringed with beautiful shells and porcupine quills. Necklaces of bears' claws and otter skin, and ornamented tobacco sacks and belts, are too numerous to describe. The medicine bag is also an important article of costume; it is formed of the skins of animals, of birds, or of reptiles, variously decorated, and always stuffed with grass or moss, and generally without drugs or medicines in them, as they are religiously closed and sealed, and carried as a sort of protection throughout life. The scalps (from the crown or centre of the head) of enemies are preserved as records of a warrior's prowess, and their locks used as trimming. Sometimes a war-knife and buffalo horns are worn upon the head, which is shaven; and the shield and spear are decorated with feathers. In short, nothing can exceed the picturesque variety of these aboriginal costumes, or the vanity of their wearers. Colombians. The Colombian costume is chiefly ber. rowed from the mother country. The Spanish marks. or a wide cloak which envelops the whole perso, Y the usual attire. But in the streets of Bogota a ferar may be seen smoking her cigar, and wearing a hand some broad beaver-hat, pearl necklace, many rings, an a rich black mantle, ornamented with bugles, but wai ing without shoes or stockings. The ladies of mu, however, are proud of their pretty feet and small anke, which are always set off by handsome silk stocki and very neat shoes. Like the women of Spain, they wax with grace and dignity, and are equally coquettish a playful with their fans. A black or blue cloth mast and a small conical black beaver hat, and black .... gown, were formerly the walking dress; but lary French bonnets, with artificial flowers and gay gowns and neckerchiefs, are now much worn; and the walking evening dress is a pretty straw hat, with art ficial flowers; a warm Norwich shawl, and chintz r (the largest in the world), gold chains, and crosses, n. very large pendant gold and pearl-drop ear-rings, in worn in profusion. The women of the middle ch generally wear an embroidered scarlet petticoat, a wi boddice, with frills and ribbons, and a parti-calon cotton band; the hair is plaited, and adorned with artficial flowers. The dress of the men is Spanish, jack-boots and long silver spurs; and a cloak made rushes, a large straw hat, and bark sandals, are fam worn in travelling. The women wear long loose robes or wrappers of skin, and carry their children strapped to a kind of frame at their backs. The snow-shoe must not be forgotten; it is about three feet long and one foot wide in the broadest part, and its frame is filled with a network of twisted deer-skin, strengthened with sticks placed cross-cotton gowns of British manufacture. Pearis, emera. wise; the foot is confined to the shoe by skin strings, though to walk well in these shoes requires as much practice as to navigate a canoe. Of the native Indian tribes of this territory, the Car cos-ribbees are the finest race; the head is shaven, exer a tuft on the crown; both sexes paint themselves, a wear only a band or wrapper of blue cloth; they ar a reddish copper colour, and, with their pictures drapery, resemble bronze statues. The women l barously ornament their infants by raising the flesh alternate stripes from the ankle to the hip. The Ch mas, another tribe, only wear clothes out-of-doors, then a light cotton gown. Mexicans. The European dress is common in Mexico, and has long been worn by the higher classes: the people are fond of change; for it is related that a traveller having left a book of London fashions at Xalapa for a few months, on his return found an entire revolution in female dress, founded upon the English model. Still, many picturesque dresses are seen in Mexico, in great measure the introduction of the Spaniards, whose celebrity in the annals of European tume will doubtless be remembered by the reader. The national riding-dress is of all the most curious, and is enormously expensive. The back and quarters of the horse are covered with stamped and gilt leather, fringed with tags of brass, iron, or silver, which jingle at every step. The saddle, which is large, is superbly embroidered with silk, gold, and silver, and the pummel inlaid with these metals; the bridle has large silver ornaments, and an Arabic bit. The horseman is attired with corresponding richness. His sombrero, a low-crowned hat, with a brim six inches wide, is broadly edged with gold or silver lace; his jacket, of cloth or printed calico, is likewise embroidered with gold or silk, or trimmed with fur; his breeches are generally pea-green or azure, open at the knee, and terminating in two points below it, and they are thickly studded down the side with large silver buttons. Next is the riding-cloak, often of velvet, and embroidered with gold. But the boots are the pride of a true Mexican cavalier; they are formed of deer-skin, well tanned and soft, stamped with figures, and bound round the legs with coloured garters below the knees. At the ankle commences the shoe, which, at the top, spreads out six inches, like a scallop-shell. The spurs, of silver, are very heavy, and have rowels three or four inches in diameter, and often a bell attached to the side. The costume of a muleteer is likewise very striking: the jacket, of embossed russet leather, has silver buttons; the overalls, of the same material, are cut so as to be the length of the foot, and are sustained by a red silk sash above the waist, allowing the shirt to appear between it and the jacket; a pair of huge silver spurs rattle at the heels, and a long straight sword hangs from the waist. The ladies generally wear black, but on holidays the colours are very gay; shawls are worn over the head like the mantilla; and the country ladies wear a profusion of spangles; and they are as proud of a neat shoe and a small foot as the females of Spain. Few ladies appear in public on foot, but in enormous coaches, in full evening costume, smoking cigars. The milliners of Mexico are so many brawny mustachioed men, who may be seen in the shops making flowers and dresses and trimming caps. Next door, women may be seen on their knees grinding chocolate; but in all semi-barbarous nations the hardest labour falls to the women's share. Peruvians.-Peru presents many interesting p liarities of costume, owing to the various races cfpopulation. The Indians, or native Peruvians, male dress, reminded Mr Temple of the peasantry Connaught; they wear coarse brown frieze breer open at the knees, a vest falling in strips round the waist, where it is confined by a cord, and a sort of cloak; shirts are seldom worn; the legs are bare, the exception of low hide sandals; and the hat r sembles Don Quixote's helmet, without the niche in The women wear a short petticoat, and a scarf the shoulders, fastened with a large silver pinas spoon. The Cholas, of Indian and Spanish descent, ar very fond of dress and ornament; the girls wear a ticoat containing from twelve to fourteen yards of r velvet or satin, trimmed with ribbons and fores gay a scarf over the shoulders, and a narrow-brimmed ba hat, like that of the Welsh women, or a broad hat, 5. a little lace, silk, or velvet-festooned curtain attach to it. They wear gold and silver ornaments and jew in profusion. The women of Lima wear a very unique tume, consisting of a closely-fitting petticoat of satin, or stuff, with a waistband and buckle; int lace, spangles, or flowers on the lower part, and e silk stockings and satin shoes; the manto, or hood, thin crimped silk, is drawn round the waist, and t turned over the back of the head, and enveloping a the upper part of the person except one eye, thus e pletely disguising the wearer. The ladies of Lima on horseback like men; the dress is then Europea with a large shawl over the head, and a Mamilia gra hat above all, and huge gold or silver spurs on th satin shoes. The Peruvian ladies are fast adopting the Fr fashions, and many marchandes des modes are establis in the large towns; but the Spanish fan is still retain the mantilla may also be seen, and the long veil falis down the back. Their hair is very luxuriant, and un versally prized, so that a poor peasant girl has been known to refuse £7 or £8 for her waving tresses. The shoe of the Indian city dame strongly contrasts with the hide-sandal of the peasant; sometimes a pair costs ten dollars; the heel spreads like a fan, and is adorned with shreds of cloth, spangles, and gold and silver tissue. The Peruvian male costume has little worth notice; and it would be better for the men of Peru if the women only took the lead in dress. The Tucumano wears trousers, and a large figured shawl over his shirt, with a very broad-brimmed conical-crowned hat tied under the chin. The Indian merchant has embroidered breeches and jacket, a rich fringed mantle over the left shoulder, and a helmet-shaped ornamented cap. But the Peruvian gentlemen mostly dress in the English fashion, and our goods are preferred to either French or German manufactures. The cloak of the country, or the poncho, is an oblong equare garment, with a hole in the centre for the head; it is made of cloth or silk and vicuna wool of very tasteful colours; it is worn constantly by the men, but only by ladies when on horseback. Mr Temple* describes a pair of light summer boots made without seam or stitch, of the skin of the hind legs of a horse, and dried ready for wear in a week-" easy as a glove." Chilians, &c.-Among the changes produced in Chili by free trade, is the general substitution of the English for the Spanish-American costume; and the principal peculiarities of costume remain among hunters, guachos, and other half-wild denizens of the country. The equipment of a rich guacho chief at Paraguay is truly magnificent: his Peruvian poncho is superbly embroidered on a white ground; his jacket is of fine India cloth; his waistcoat embroidered white satin, with gold buttons; his shirt collar and front are of fine French cambric, richly tamboured; his breeches are of black velvet, with gold buttons, and open at the knees; and from under the knee-bands are seen the fringed and worked extremities of a pair of drawers of fine Paraguay cloth, and ample as a Turkoman's trousers, and just showing a pair of brown vicuna wool stockings; while his skin boots fit the feet and ankles as a French glove fits the hand; the tops are turned over like bustins, and to the heels are attached large silver spurs. His large hat is of Peruvian straw, with a black velvet band; and around his waist is a rich crimson silk sash, which serves as riding-belt, braces, and girdle for a huge silver-handled knife in a morocco sheath. His borse is alike gorgeously caparisoned: the saddle, bridle, and reins being silver mounted, and the stirrups #laborately wrought out of at least ten lbs. of virgin alver. In fine, nothing more splendid than this horse and rider can be found in South America. At Buenos Ayres and Mendoza, British manufachures are much in request. In the latter town the men wear blue and white round jackets; and the women are only seen in dishabille during the day, but n the evening they promenade completely equipped in the costume of London or Paris. Brazilians.-The vast region of Brazil presents a few traces of its original Indian barbarism, the natives baving never been incorporated with the European ettlers, but having retired before them into the depths of the forests. Here some of the tribes paint themelves frightfully, and by hanging pieces of wood to their ears, stretch them till they hang down to the shoulders; and the under lip is similarly extended. A scanty portion of clothing has been borrowed from the Portuguese colonists, whose costume was generally adopted in the towns, until, by the free intercourse of Brazil with England, our fashions of dress were assumed by the Brazilians, as well as our furniture and domestic habits. Within two years from their introduction in 1808, English goods made their way, and women might be seen dressed in silks, who, a year previous, would have worn Lisbon printed cottons and Travels in Peru and Potosi. † Robertson's Letters on Paraguay. thick cloths, and have gone to church stockingless and slipshod. The mineral wealth of Brazil has ensured so ample a supply of clothing from other countries, that manufactures have made less progress here than in any other of the South American colonies; and the only important fabrics are gold and silver articles, which are very beautifully wrought. Rio Janeiro is almost a European town in dress as well as style of building, though its crowd of halfnaked blacks and mulattoes soon destroys the illusion. St Salvador is a gayer city; and here the French style of dress is much followed, but the official costume is more native. Thus we find the Secretary of State, a half-Indian, mounted on a mule, and dressed in white cotton; his jacket faced with red, and leggings with ponderous spurs; his hat is broad-brimmed and glazed, and has a gold lace-band; his sash is yellow; a gold epaulette graces his right shoulder, and a huge long sword hangs by his side, while his dagger is fastened to his right knee. In the provinces, sandals with loops and ankle-rings were the Brazilian shoes long after the introduction of English manufactures; and when a native took to wearing a shirt and drawers, a long bed-gown and slippers, he oddly thought himself a gentleman, and entitled to respect accordingly. To this day the arts of life appear to be unknown in some villages, where the natives are bare from the waist upwards, and the children wear no clothes whatever. Even at Rio the extremes of mankind are collected, and the slave population merely wear a waistcloth. At Pernambuco, the benefits of its large cotton-trade are evident; white and coloured muslins alternate with silks and satins; and the men, who formerly wore full-dress suits of black, gold buckles, and cocked hats, now wear Nankin pantaloons, half-boots, and round hats; and even the sedan-chairs and their bearers are improved. The costume of the Sertanejos, the graziers of the interior, is partly aboriginal; his pantaloons or leggings, jacket, and hat, are of brown undressed leather; a tanned goat-skin tied over his breast; slippers confined by straps, and iron spurs upon his naked heels. He carries on horseback a change of clothes in a piece of red baize, with tinder, tobacco, and pipe, and a knife in his girdle. The Sertanejos women merely wear a chemise and petticoat within doors, and shoes and a white head-cloth when they leave home. Before the direct trade with England, the coarse cotton cloth of the country was worn by both sexes; and then a dress of English or Portuguese common printed cotton cost from two to three guineas! The preceding engraving represents a Brazilian young women, too, are graceful, and have expressite sugar-planter. He is well clothed and armed, and eyes and a profusion of long silky hair. his horse is superbly caparisoned; the mountings are No two persons are tattooed exactly alike; it is ge silver; and such a saddle as is here represented, when rally commenced on the lips, then on the cheeks, and made of morocco leather and green velvet, silver-progress is made alike in embellishment and age. Tat mounted, sometimes costs one hundred guineas. He tooing is no sign of rank, for slaves get marked as travels, with his wife, in rude state, the lady being much as chiefs; but every tribe has distinctive insignia borne by negroes in an embroidered hammock, and It is considered a mark of beauty; and some of the attended by a female on foot. young natives have their bodies marked over with small dots, resembling the blue spots in a Guernsey frock. The most valued article of dress is the pai sort of cloak formed of the skins of dogs, the furs ed lengthwise, and sewed alternately white, brown, black, to a strong matting. These garments are to the principal chiefs as presents. The common natis mat is made of flax, scraped with the mussel-ebel Another mat is made of silken flax, interwoven with blue, red, and green baize, purchased of the Europe: it is worked with sampler-like borders of elegant desig This is a handsome summer dress; but for wat and comfort, the English blanket is in univers repute. It may be mentioned, that jewels and gems are worn profusely in Brazil; yet, although it is the land of the diamond, the splendid beetles of the country are worn as brooches. The coronation attire is magnificent. The crown, except the green velvet cap and the band of gold, seems one mass of diamonds; the ruff is of Spanish lace; and the green velvet robe, embroidered with gold, has, in place of the ermine in other regal attire, a dress cape of the bright yellow feathers of the toucan, which was part of the dress of the ancient caciques of the country. The imperial under-dress is of white satin, embroidered with gold, high military boots, gold spurs, and a diamond-hilted sword. At court the nobility wear the costumes of their ancestors centuries since; and in the national museum are preserved the superb feather coronets, dresses, and ornaments of the aboriginal chiefs.* AUSTRALASIAN COSTUMES. The costume of the English settlers in the Australian continent and islands is, as may be supposed, purely European, the London fashions being regularly transmitted thither. The only peculiarity of costume is among the native tribes, who, placed at a low condition in savage life, are dressed in the most primitive and barbarous style. The clothing of the men of certain tribes consists of a skin cloak worn like a robe over the shoulders, and fastened round the neck, the fur part being turned inside in wet weather. Around the waist is worn a belt, not unlike an officer's sash, made of opossum fur; and attached to it are flaps of opossum-skin cut in stripes, and worn before and behind; and a skin purse and tobacco-pouch are carried in this belt. The jetblack hair is worn long, and well greased; but some tribes tie it to the top of the head with bunches of reeds and cockatoo feathers; and they wear the beard. The skin is tattooed in stripes, more especially among the natives of the south, which renders them terrific in appearance. The women also wear opossum skin-cloaks; and they have one or two nets, in which they carry at their back an infant child, and burdens generally. Their hair is shorter and more curly than that of the men, and is occasionally ornamented with kangaroo-teeth, affixed to their locks by wax, so as to dangle all round their heads. Both sexes are very fond of ornament, for which purpose they thickly coat their skin with fishoil, and on high occasions smear their faces with red and white earth; on their bodies are traced the forms of birds and beasts, and the jaw-bones of fish and the tails of dogs are favourite decorations; and through the nose is often worn a feather or piece of bone. They carry spears, clubs, and other weapons, in great variety. New Zealanders.-The natives of New Zealand, considered by Dr Laing to be of Asiatic origin, are physically and intellectually superior to the New Hollanders, although they are yet essentially a savage people. Their personal appearance is very fine; their mean complexion is that of a European gipsy, but their faces are much disfigured by tattooing. Their chiefs have fine athletic forms; and their mat cloak tied over the right shoulder, and descending to the ankles, brings to the mind of a classical beholder the Roman toga; whilst their towering stature and perfect symmetry give even more than Roman dignity to the illusion. The Stewart's Visit to the South-Scas. The mats are worn over the shoulders, tied acr the breast; and around the waist is a similar mat, tened with a belt. Spear-grass and sedgy cloaks worn in wet weather. The women affect less hands apparel than the men, but they are fond of oran Red ochre and shark-oil are the cosmetics used fr I head to foot. Both sexes wear in the ears part skins, bones, cloth beads, teeth of friends, ene dogs, pigs, &c., and are generally garnished with t ing-wax: armlets, ringlets, necklets, and anklets, fancy wood combs are worn, and nose ornamen the men. The hair on gala-days is worn in a t knot, with sea-fowl flowers; and various painta used. English female garments are already much in quest; and the men may be seen strutting about in cast-off cloth jacket; and this passion has been dulged by the missionaries and colonists from Eng It has been well observed" True it is, till their pean costume shall become complete (and perhaps e then), they will look more noble in their mat-cal but no barbarous country was ever civilised till the people had adopted the costume of their conqueron and the expensive and complicated dress of rein and fashion is the taste that will lead the savage b dustry and the arts of peace-not the head-dr plastered hair and the garment made from the e tree."* The engraving represents a family of New Z ers, two of whom wear the fine coloured silke f mats, and the third the blanket robe. *Murray's Encyclopedia of Geography. Printed and published by W. and IL. CHAMBERS, E Sold also by W. S. Onn and Co., Landen CHAMBERS'S INFORMATION FOR THE CONDUCTED BY WILLIAM AND ROBERT CHAMBERS, EDITORS OF CHAMBERS'S NUMBER 87. NEW AND IMPROVED SERIES. PRICE 14d. 2451 BRITISH COSTUMES. BRITISH AND ROMAN PERIODS. In original inhabitants of the British isles were of Celtic descent, and are believed to have brought with them the Thracian custom of tattooing their bodies, by queezing certain coloured juices into figures made with he points of needles. Hence they must have resembled in appearance the tattooed islanders of the South Seas; and although personal distinction may have been the ading object of this species of ornament, it appears to ave been generally adopted by barbarous half-clad tribes. Among the Southern or Belgic Britons, at the time when Julius Cæsar landed in the country (55 B.C.), the arts connected with clothing had made some advance; but in the more northern parts, the practice of living half naked, with painted and tattooed bodies, was common, and remained till a much later period than in the south. Such fanciful decorations are supposed to have given name to the nation of Picts, from the Latin word picti (painted); but other authorities refer the term to different origins. The Roman dress does not appear to have been dopted until towards the close of the first century, hen the better classes of Southern and Eastern Briin exchanged the bracca for the Roman tunic, reachg to the knee, and the toga, or mantle. Pict. In the dress of the women there was but little change. They appear in two tunics, the one reaching to the kles, and the other has short sleeves, and reaches out half-way down the thigh; or they resemble a und gown, or bed-gown and petticoat, though the ter, distinct from a body and sleeves, is not condered to be ancient. This tunic was called in British , and hence our word gown; of which we still see pecimens of short dimensions worn by women of the mble classes in England, Scotland, and Wales. ANGLO-SAXON AND DANISH PERIODS. shoulders with brooches; short drawers, met by hose, over which were worn bands of cloth, linen, or leather, in diagonal crossings. Leather sandals were worn by the early Anglo-Saxons; but afterwards the shoe became common: it was very simple, and well contrived for comfort, being opened down the instep, and there, by a thong passed through holes on each side of the slit, drawn tight round the feet like a purse. A felt or woollen cap, called hat (hence our modern word hat), was worn by the higher class of Anglo-Saxons ; but it is generally believed that the serfs or lower orders were without any other covering for the head than what nature had given them. Although Sir Walter Scott, with the natural modesty of genius, disclaims pretension to complete accuracy in the costume of the characters in his historical romances, the following portrait of Gurth, the Saxon swineherd, in "Ivanhoe," is nearly correct: "His garment was of the simplest form imaginable, being a close jacket with sleeves, ad composed of the tanned skin of some animal, in which the hair had been How originally left, but which had been worn off in so neng many places that it would have been difficult to dis Gurth.-Saxon. Bored by tinguish from the patches that remained to what creature the fur had belonged. This primeval vestment reached from the throat to the knee, and served at once all the purposes of bodyclothing. There was no wider opening at the collar than was necessary to admit the passage of the head, from which it may be inferred that it was put on by slipping it over the head and shoulders in the manner of a modern shirt or ancient hauberk. Sandals, bound with thongs made of boar's hide, protected the feet; and a sort of roll of thin leather was bound artificially round the legs, and, ascending above the calf, left the knees bare, like those of a Scotch Highlander. make the jacket sit more closely to the body, it was gathered at the middle by a broad leathern belt, secured by a brass buckle, to one side of which was attached a sort of scrip, and to the other a ram's horn, accoutred with a mouth-piece for the purpose of blow To Whatever traces of costume may have been left in ritain by the Romans, they disappeared soon after the rival of the Saxons in 449, who introduced fashions apparel from northern Germany, which were copied y the Romanised British, and continued with no mate-ing. In the same belt was stuck one of those long, al change for several centuries. The common dress of the males of the eighth cenry consisted, as we find, of linen shirts; tunics, or kind of surcoat; cloaks fastened on the breast or broad, sharp-pointed, and two-edged knives which were fabricated in the neighbourhood, and bore even at this early period the name of a Sheffield whittle. The man had no covering upon his head, which was only de |