British costume during XIX centuries (civil and ecclesiastical) (1910)
Ashdown, Charles H., Mrs · London and Edinburgh : T. C. & e. c. Jack · leaf 34
fashion, but muchwas left to individual taste; the mode of fastening, how-ever, was either in the centre of the chest, or upon one orboth shoulders. The shape of this mantle was that shownin Fig. 5, PL, No. 1 ; although plain in the earlier years, SAXON Head-gear.—Banded Phrygian cap.Cloak.—Of blue… … THE SAXON PERIOD, c. 460 to 1066 11 it finally became decorated (Fig. 6, PL). An example inwhich it is shown fastened upon the chest is given in Fig.7, PL, where it is very voluminous ; upon both shoulders inFig. 5, PL, No. 2, and upon one shoulder in Fig. 9, PL Occa-sionally the mantle was made in…
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