British costume during XIX centuries (civil and ecclesiastical) (1910)
Ashdown, Charles H., Mrs · London and Edinburgh : T. C. & e. c. Jack · leaf 384
leaned from the breast- fig. 330.—Peascod breastplate. . , (Tower of London.) plates of that time, which have preserved to us in rigid metal the forms which the civilgarments displayed. The accompanying sketch (Fig. 330)of a peascod breastplate in the Tower of London (from Arms and Armour, British… … 242 BRITISH COSTUME being padded, became bombasted, and, allowing a little forcaricature, assumed the familiar shape with which weassociate Punch, that costume being a direct descendant ofthe Italian variety of this period (Fig. 332). A fine full-length portrait of a noble-man is that of Sir…
Costume
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