British costume during XIX centuries (civil and ecclesiastical) (1910)
Ashdown, Charles H., Mrs · London and Edinburgh : T. C. & e. c. Jack · leaf 239
custom, once introduced,gradually developed, untilabout the year 1400 theveil became a prominentfeature, covering not onlythe back part of the head,but also at times hanging down on either side of the face,after the fashion of the peplum of a century earlier. Infact, the head-dress between 1400 and… … Fig. 183.—A lady at Sawtrey, Hampshire, 1404. 2 H—^
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