British costume during XIX centuries (civil and ecclesiastical) (1910)
Ashdown, Charles H., Mrs · London and Edinburgh : T. C. & e. c. Jack · leaf 457
henworn; from Henry VII.to Charles II. the tailorand the tailoress could beemployed; from James II. to the present day the tailoralone has been concerned. The exact cut of the cloth,and the indispensable pressing of seams and folds neces-sitated the art and strength of the precisian, and he… … Fig. 391.—Summer and winter fashions,temp. William III. JAMES II., WILLIAM AND MARY 301 natural death, and were replaced by a more tightly fittinggarment which reached below the knee. The stockingswere made to draw over them, and sometimes reachedto the middle of the thigh. The periwig became,…
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