British costume during XIX centuries (civil and ecclesiastical) (1910)
Ashdown, Charles H., Mrs · London and Edinburgh : T. C. & e. c. Jack · leaf 87
ly the only one worn amongst the lowestclasses, was drawn in round the waist by a broad leatherbelt, which suspended a knife and other necessary articles.Shoes of a simple shape were always worn, and to this 46 BRITISH COSTUME rugged simplicity, stockings of cloth and cross-gartering ofleather were… … Fig. 60.—Normaii travellers. (Cott. MS. Nero C iv.) of coarse linen swathed round the head after the mannerof the rail or the couvre-chef, supplied a pattern whichbecame almost stereotyped for three centuries. The hairwas jealously guarded from exposure, as during the SaxonPeriod. The accompanying…
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