The corset and the crinoline : a book of modes and costumes from remote periods to the present time (1868)
Lord, William Barry · London : Ward, Lock, and Tyler · leaf 64
leeves was much curtailed, and thepreposterously long toes of the shoes reduced to a convenient standard.The ladies appear to have for some time resisted the innovation, but onePoulaine, an ingenious Parisian shoemaker, happening to devise a veryattractive shoe with a heel fitted to it, the ladies… … 60 THE CORSET AND THE CRINOLINE. CHAPTER IV. The bonnet a canon and sugarloaf headdress—Headdress of the women of Normandy atthe present day—Odd dress of King Louis XI.—Return of Charles VIII. fromNaples—A golden time for tailors and milliners—General change of fashion —Costumes of the time of…
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