British costume during XIX centuries (civil and ecclesiastical) (1910)
Ashdown, Charles H., Mrs · London and Edinburgh : T. C. & e. c. Jack · leaf 124
they complain of the impossibility ofobtaining the desired effect at the present day. We ventureto think that if similar material and the same design wereused, the wished-for result would ensue. The coloured plateis the photograph of a dress constructed upon the mediaeval LADY, circa 1290… … EDWARD I., 1272-1307 69 principle, from which it will be gathered that the skirt ofthe robe was a perfect circle when displayed. The materialused in the Middle Ages was invariably soft and clinging,with none of the stiffness which characterised the Renais-sance and subsequent periods. The sleeves…
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