the last time i saw him , at the court at bambury , bishop higbold was wearing a fine linen shirt , under a sky-blue tunic ; his neckline and sleeves were generously embroidered with silk ; his shoes were trimmed with red-dyed leather ; the curls in his hair on his forehead and by his temples came from a curling iron ; fingers glittering with many rings , and ending with sharpened finger-nails -- which he sometimes actually paints !