At the beginning of the essay, translator M.E. Screech notes something important about it: [In this chapter Montaigne makes a pun on the French taste for bigarures, which means, as Cotgrave explains it in his Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues (1632) both a medley of ‘sundry colours mingled together’ and a discourse ‘running … Continue reading 36. On the Custom of Wearing Clothing