A Collar instead of a Cravat twelve inches high; with a blue, stiff, starcht, lawn Band, set in print like your Whiskers; a Doublet with small Skirts hookt to a pair of wide-kneed Breeches, which dangled halfway over a Leg, all to be dash'd and dirty'd as high as the Gartering.
"The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. I (of 6)"
Aphra Behn
Accessories included glass beads, buttons, thread, both brown and black, twelve dozen yards of Gartering, bone combs, scissors, shears and tailors' shears.
"Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century Jamestown 350th Anniversary Historical Booklet Number 17"
Annie Lash Jester
It is not unlikely, besides, that Malvolio, in anticipation of his certain promotion to the ranks of the aristocracy by his marriage with Olivia, had donned, in addition to yellow stockings, some rich costume, put on in imitation of those fashionable young noblemen at court who wore silk scarves crossed above and below the knee, since without the costume his own cross-Gartering would not have been in keeping.
"Shakespeare in the Theatre"
William Poel