British costume during XIX centuries (civil and ecclesiastical) (1910)
Ashdown, Charles H., Mrs · London and Edinburgh : T. C. & e. c. Jack · leaf 322
her, andso unseemly low did the gallants wear the open neckthat the critical busybodies, prevalent in that age as inevery other, seized upon it as a subject for their sarcasms.An example of these elaborate stomachers may be gleanedfrom Fig. 267, taken from a painting on the walls of Win-chester… … 198 BRITISH COSTUME less aggressive design, and finished with a band at the neckand waist. The Doublet.—This garment took the place of thepourpoint of the preceding reigns and the cote-hardi ofthe fourteenth century. It fitted tightly to the figure, butwas cut away in front over the chest in order…
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