Haweis, Mary Eliza Joy, 1852-1898 · London : Chatto & Windus · leaf 82
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,… … Fig. 24.—Duchess of Richmond (Lely). About 1615, it went out for a time, and was graduallyreplaced by the picturesque and graceful negligencewhich characterised the court of Charles II. and which Lely has immortalised. 62 BEAUTY AND DRESS. The Puritan rigidity of taste and hatred of frivolity,whose…
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