British costume during XIX centuries (civil and ecclesiastical) (1910)
Ashdown, Charles H., Mrs · London and Edinburgh : T. C. & e. c. Jack · leaf 409
ed that the accentuations of thesepoints by means of colour may prove of material assist-ance to the student. THE WOMENSecond Period, 1580-1603 It was during this second period that the true Eliza-bethan costume was evolved, and gave it that emphaticand remarkable character which distinctly stamps… … Fig. 347.—Elizabeth, 1588. sisting of whalebone and leather, rigid and inflexible; tothe lower part of this a horizontal shelf of the same unbend-ing material was firmly affixed, projecting more at the sidesthan in front or at the back. The shelf thus presented an irregular oval to a birds-eye
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