British costume during XIX centuries (civil and ecclesiastical) (1910)
Ashdown, Charles H., Mrs · London and Edinburgh : T. C. & e. c. Jack · leaf 466
ly pictures, says: You see, Sir, my great-great-grandmother has on the new fashioned petticoat, exceptthat the modern is gathered at the waist; my grandmotherappears as if she stood in a large drum, whereas the ladiesnow walk as if they were in a go-cart. The new-fashionedpetticoat is engraved here… … Fig. 404.—Costumes, 1718. 810 BRITISH COSTUME unnatural, and consequently less agreeable. When a slenderwoman stands upon a basis so exorbitantly wide, sheresembles a funnel, a figure of no great elegancy. Thegeneral appearance of the ladies with commodes and hoopedpetticoats may be gathered from…
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