Haweis, Mary Eliza Joy, 1852-1898 · London : Chatto & Windus · leaf 81
nientfarthingale, which while courts are immoral always willcome in again and again for the same reasons. The first form of farthingale v/as that of an ex-tinguisher, in which we see the daughters and wives ofHenry VIII. arrayed. It was stiff, formal, uncomfort-able, no doubt, and the compressed… … Fig. 22.—Court lady, early sixteenth century. Fig. 23.—Country lady,early sixteenth century. wearing the clinging robe of the preceding reign, and aform of the heavy head-dress, still lingering in Holbeinsportraits (fig. 23). SOME OLD DRESSES. 61 The final and corrupt form of the farthingale,…
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