British costume during XIX centuries (civil and ecclesiastical) (1910)
Ashdown, Charles H., Mrs · London and Edinburgh : T. C. & e. c. Jack · leaf 397
n-sions, as also does thefigure of an Englishlady of quality, 1577,in Fig. 345. The pleats in the ruffs were made by goffer-ing tongs or poking sticks, as they were termed; theearliest were of wood and bone, and were inserted intothe ruff after its emergence from the starch which thendried in the… … Fig. 345. Lady, 1577. Lady, 1588.
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