Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People by Constance D'Arcy Mackay
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COSTUMES The costumes are those of the seventeenth-century cavaliers for the Merrymount lads. Slashed jerkins, full sleeves with puffs and slashings, or bishop's sleeves of white lawn showing through tattered velvet oversleeves. Their cloaks are sometimes topped with white lace collars. They wear either stockings and low slippers with buckles, or high cavalier boots. Their hair is worn in lovelocks. See the illustrated edition of "Pilgrim's Progress," or any good cavalier pictures. If the velvets and satins cannot be had, use cambric in gay colors with the glazed side out, which gives the effect of satin. SIMON SCARLETT. Scarlet suit. Scarlet cloak with white lace collar. Scarlet shoes and stockings. His costume is the high note of color in the play. WILL LACKLEATHER. Dark-brown cloak. High brown boots. Brown jerkin, through which show sleeves of white lawn. The jerkin is of leather. ROBIN WAKELESS. Suit of blue satin. Gray cloak. Gray foot-gear. CHRISTOPHER CARMEL. Dark-blue velvet slashed with orange. JOCK. Very dark-purple cloak, with touches of tarnished gold. Leather jerkin, pieced out with fur. FAUNCH THE FIDDLER. Costume of pale-blue satin and black velvet. A black velvet cloak. |
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