British costume during XIX centuries (civil and ecclesiastical) (1910)
Ashdown, Charles H., Mrs · London and Edinburgh : T. C. & e. c. Jack · leaf 406
e also brought Elizabeth a pairof embroidered gloves scented with sweet perfume fromItaly. They were trimmed with four tufts, or roses, ofcoloured silk, and her Majesty was so much delighted withthis new fashion, that in one of her pictures she is paintedwith them upon her hands. Wharton says that… … I ELIZABETH, 1558-1603 259 were suspended together with a looking-glass from thegirdle by a gold or silver chain. Wharton mentions a fanpresented to Elizabeth, the handle of which was studdedwith diamonds. The most costly were made of ostrichfeathers, fastened into handles composed of gold,…
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