All these things that I have done

I know a fair bit about it from Readers' Digest articles read as a child, and I sort of assumed everybody else knew the same amount about it until a Tube Stations fancy dress party a few years ago. I chopped up a T-shirt till it was in ribbons and about half its normal length and went as Cutty Sark, thinking people would a) know it meant 'short shirt' and b) have seen the painting of the poem in which witch-girl is running along in a ripped-up shirt. Of course, no one had a clue what I'd come as.