- Dagges
- DAGGESA term applied to a fantastic cutting and slashing of garments or the borders of them. The fashion appears to have become so ridiculous that in the year 1188 laws were passed to forbid it, but not much notice was taken of the laws! until in 1407 it was ordained that no man should be permitted to wear a gown or garment cut or slashed into pieces in the form of letters, rose-leaves and posies of various kinds, or any such devices, under the penalty of forfeiting the same, and that no tailor should presume to make such a garment under the pain of imprisonment and fine, and his liberation depended upon the king's pleasure.
Dictionary of the English textile terms. 2014.