British costume during XIX centuries (civil and ecclesiastical) (1910)
Ashdown, Charles H., Mrs · London and Edinburgh : T. C. & e. c. Jack · leaf 430
ones. It is probable that this example is the last weshall find of a fashion which had survived from the days ofHenry VIII., and possibly this is also the end of the farthin-gale. Planche tells us an amusing story with regard tothis unnatural disguisement. When Sir Peter Wych wassent ambassador to… … 276 BRITISH COSTUME dressed in their great varthingales, which was the court dressof the English ladies at that time, waited upon her High-ness. The Sultana received her visitor with great respect,but, struck with the extraordinary extension of the hipsof the whole party, seriously inquired if that…
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