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Chats on costume (1906)

Rhead, G. Woolliscroft (George Woolliscroft), 1854-1920 · London : T.F. Unwin · leaf 217

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green clothfringed with red crule and lined with frize for oursaid fool. The mens turbaned head-dress of the reign ofRichard II. and later is sufficiently remarkable towarrant a description. It was a long cloth, woundround and round the head—the edges cut, clipped andjagged in various ways—one end… … HUNTING HAT. Oiragiia, Campo Santa, Pisa. head in the oval openingthe face, to gather up inportion which coveredthe shoulders, and tobind it in position bywinding the long tippetround the head andtucking in the end ofit. Later, no doubt,the head - dress wasformally made up bythe hatter or tailor,…

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