Haweis, Mary Eliza Joy, 1852-1898 · London : Chatto & Windus · leaf 111
go BEAUTY AND DRESS. sketched one (fig. 38) in my own possession, worn by myown great-grandmother. The long taper shoe worn atthe end of the fifteenth century was not without merits ;not the least of these was that it followed the formof the foot almost exactly ; the extreme and narrowlength made… … Fig. 39.— Fifieenth-century shoe. their serpent length with hay, to the imminent peril ofeverybodys life. There is a well-known French proverbstill vulgarly applied to a wealthy person, II a du foindans ses bottes. The exquisitely decorated shoe of anearlier date, such as Chaucers smart parish…
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