Haweis, Mary Eliza Joy, 1852-1898 · London : Chatto & Windus · leaf 163
Fig. 67.—The gorget, 14th century. The gorget or wimple was one of the mostremarkable articles of feminine wearing apparel, asshowing that when woman has a fit of good sense, she 142 BEAUTY AND HEAD-DRESSES. may carry it beyond the boundary of good taste. Thewimple succeeded the head-rail, which… … Fig. 1 he wimple. Fig. 69. trace it under various forms :—ait- naturcl, in fig. 6j;fastened to the hat, fig. 68; attached to a veiled head-dress, fig. 69; all of them from fourteenth-century por-traits. At one time it lay in thick folds, like what itwas actually named after, a barbe ; and however…
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