British costume during XIX centuries (civil and ecclesiastical) (1910)
Ashdown, Charles H., Mrs · London and Edinburgh : T. C. & e. c. Jack · leaf 100
hts attended in vestments of silk, curiously wroughtin embroidery; they appeared on the morrow in new robesof still more magnificent decoration. Their breasts wereadorned with fibulas, their shoulders with precious stonesof great magnitude. The ladies had rings of gold set withtopaz stones and… … Fig. 71.—Design upon shoe.Effigy of Henry III. 56 BRITISH COSTUME THE MEN The costume of the nobility and well-to-do classesfollowed similar lines to that of the King, with the excep-tion of the covering for the head. Tlie Capuchon or hood, which was adopted as a portionof civil dress about this…
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