British costume during XIX centuries (civil and ecclesiastical) (1910)
Ashdown, Charles H., Mrs · London and Edinburgh : T. C. & e. c. Jack · leaf 383
felt, the latter being often thrummed, i.e. having a long napupon it. This is the earliest form of the beaver hat. Stubbs,writing at this period, states that men are content withno kind of hat withoute a great bunche of feathers of divers 240 BRITISH COSTUME … and sundrie colours. Many get good living dying and sellying of them, and not a fewprove themselves fooles by wear-ing them. Cloak.—The cloaks worn atthis time were made of cloth,silk, velvet, or taffeta, and ofevery colour then known.There were Spanish^ French, andDutch fashions for cutting…
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