British costume during XIX centuries (civil and ecclesiastical) (1910)
Ashdown, Charles H., Mrs · London and Edinburgh : T. C. & e. c. Jack · leaf 401
ed. The Robe.—The great feature of the first division ofthe reign is the spread of the skirts, which are not paddedto a great extent, if at all, upon the hips, and generallypresent a bell-shaped figure. This is well noted in thehunting scene previously referred to. In Fig. 346 a groupof burgher… … Fig. 346.—Costumes of town women and a country woman, in the time of The Merry Wives of Windsor. (Add. MS. 28,330.) Corsets.—During the reign of Elizabeth these wereworn by both men and women. The following lines aredescriptive and satirical:— ELIZABETH, 1558-1603 255 These privie coates by art…
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