A goffered shirt-front worn with evening dress is the mark of a foreigner in London, but some few men venture to clothe themselves for the evening in a shirt whose front is pleated and but slightly starched.
The ruff, which began simply enough in the first half of this century as a little cambric collar with a goffered edge, is for all of us the distinguishing note of Elizabethan dress.
Loose ruffles of lace were attached to shirt cuffs until during the great part of the 18th century, and the ruffled or goffered shirt-front, which became common under George III.
The sleeves are almost tight for about two-thirds of the arm, and end in a frill, on which are set two smaller frills, vandyked and goffered at the edges.
Body high, open in front, and having at the edge, as a lapel, two vandyked and goffered trimmings, with very little fullness.
This is edged by a goffered frill of cretonne, like the curtains, about a foot deep.
Liberty’s, but I personally prefer the guipure, or else a large square of Madras muslin, edged with a goffered frill, or else a cheap lace.
On the body there are five cross-bands of silk, goffered and cut at the edges.
The sleeves are open under the arm from the elbow downward, and are held together by two goffered cross bands.
The trimmings goffered in small flutes are fixed under a narrow galloon; another galloon is placed a little higher, leaving an interval of about half an inch between them.
The skirt has seven rows of gofferedtrimmings gathered like those on the body.
