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Chats on costume (1906)

Rhead, G. Woolliscroft (George Woolliscroft), 1854-1920 · London : T.F. Unwin · leaf 260

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he country gent by the natural flyand hunting peruke ; the coachman wore his, as dosome to this day, in imitation of the curled hair of awater-dog. There were also, as a writer in the London Maga-zine of 1753 informs us, the pigeons wing, the comet,the cauliflower, the royal bird, the staircase,… … BEAU FEILDIM. After Wissiiii^. 17 258 CHATS ON COSTUME the half natural, the chain-buckle, the corded buckle,the snail back, and many others. The Judge, says Fortescue, while he sitteth inthe Kings Courts, weareth a white quoife of silke,which is the principal and chiefe insignement ofhabite…

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