Rhead, G. Woolliscroft (George Woolliscroft), 1854-1920 · London : T.F. Unwin · leaf 123
the parti-colour-ing would assume variousforms, as a zig-zag on thethigh, or calf, or both ; infact, the leg was regardedas a field for the dressdesigner to exercise hisingenuity in the matter ofcontrast, upon the principleof what is known in orna-ment as counterchange. In Fields play of A Woman is… … ANGLO-SAXON RETAINER. THE DOUBLET AND HOSE WJ At the be^innini^ (jf the sixteenth century a newdevelopment appears, which began as an upper gar-ment reaching only to the knees, also at this periodcalled hose, upper stocks, and trawses, which werepuffed, slashed, and embroidered in various ways…
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