British costume during XIX centuries (civil and ecclesiastical) (1910)
Ashdown, Charles H., Mrs · London and Edinburgh : T. C. & e. c. Jack · leaf 416
strongly appealed to him as beingeffective against the point of adagger or a rapier. A representa-tion of his Majesty, executed in1614, may give some idea of thelength to which this paddingcould go (Fig. 354). Corsetswere in use by gentlemen at thisperiod to give the necessary shapeto chest and… … Fig. 354.—King James I., 1614. 266 BRITISH COSTUME To show to what an extent this fashion was followed,we may cite the following. There was a law in forceagainst wearing bags stuffed in their sacks and a personis described as being brought before a court of justice: heis charged by the judges with…
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