British costume during XIX centuries (civil and ecclesiastical) (1910)
Ashdown, Charles H., Mrs · London and Edinburgh : T. C. & e. c. Jack · leaf 132
Fig. 88.—Costume, c. 1330. gradually crept down the body, until by the middle ofthe reign it appeared below the hips. This feature is seenin illuminations of the early part of the fourteenth centuryin a most accentuated form, by giving the men a weasel-like length of body, which, combined with an… … EDWARD II., 1307-1327 75 feature is reproduced, as may be seen in Fig. 89. Thecote-hardi was invariably fastened from the neck downto the waist by means of buttons, some-times of great size, but no continuousfastenings are shown down the skirt.It is highly improbable, however, thatno opening…
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