British costume during XIX centuries (civil and ecclesiastical) (1910)
Ashdown, Charles H., Mrs · London and Edinburgh : T. C. & e. c. Jack · leaf 412
ever obsessed the imagination, anddistorted the lines of human beauty. Upon the stage andelsewhere the farthingale isoften seen as a simple hoopdistending the dress andswaying freely with themovements of the wearer.Needless to say this is quiteincorrect. Fig. 347, repre-senting the Queen as… … Fig. 348. c. 1600. 1596. fuller and somewhat likeThe ludicrous effect pro- duced by the farthingale in the apparent shortening ofthe lower limbs is painfully apparent. The partlet wasnow discarded, and an enormous ruff, rising graduallyfrom the front of the shoulders to about the heightof the head…
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