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Chats on costume (1906)

Rhead, G. Woolliscroft (George Woolliscroft), 1854-1920 · London : T.F. Unwin · leaf 176

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of them rose up. Some stared at the prodigiousbottom, and some at the little top, of this strangedress. In the meantime the lady of the manorfilled the area of the church and walked up to thepew with an unspeakable satisfaction, amid thewhispers, conjectures, and astonishments of the… … PORTRAITS OK MARY, QUEEN OK SCOTS, AM) DARNI.EY. From an engraving by R. Elstracke, I/O CHATS ON COSTUME turists. In i860 Punch adopts the idea, andissues a warning to ladies who would ride in crino-lines on donkeys, and gives a cut of a lady in anenormous crinoline riding on a donkey, with…

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