Costume: fanciful, historical, and theatrical (1906)
Aria, Eliza (Davis) 1866- · London Macmillan · leaf 113
f IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTLTCV. CH. VIII IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 79 jacket ; and that the great general Garibaldi isresponsible for the loose shirt with open collar ;and that a peculiar kind of open-sleeved bed-jacket,known as the nightingale, is sacred to the heroicefforts of that devoted nurse… … MADAME DE POMPADOUR. Madame de Pompadour represented in her cen-tury everything that was most beautiful, mostdesirable, and most alluring, and she played herpart as pioneer of fashion with a fierce, recklessenthusiasm, and, from the crown of her rolledhair to the tip of her embroidered shoes,…
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