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Chats on costume (1906)

Rhead, G. Woolliscroft (George Woolliscroft), 1854-1920 · London : T.F. Unwin · leaf 152

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close ofthe century. Laced and buttoned coats and waist-coats were worn, together with a smartly cocked hatsurmounted with a feather. It also appeared earlier,during the reign of Elizabeth, and was satirised byStubbes, and later, in the Spectator, by Addison. Wepicture Die Vernon in a habit of this… … MISS LKVVIS. Engraved by James Macardell. 10 146 CHATS ON COSTUME of the Hanoverian period was an echo of an earliertime, when Good Queen Bess strutted it in wheeledfarthingale. It was strongly fortified with whalebonestrips, and formed a V in front. One of the chief characteristics of the dresses…

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