Calthrop, Dion Clayton, 1878-1937 · London, A. and C. Black · leaf 156
stuntil the end of Henry III.s reign the clothes ofEngland appear—that is, they appear to me—tobe lordly, rich, fine, but never courtier-like andelegant. If one may take fashion as a person, one maysay: Fashion arrived in 1066 in swaddling-clothes,and so remained enveloped in rich cloaks and… … HENRY THE THIRD 69 grew until, in 1270, it developed into a distaste forheavy clothes ; but the boy knew of no way as yetin which to rid himself of the trailings of his mothercloak. Then, in about 1272, he invented a cloakmore like a strange, long tunic, through which hemight thrust his arms for…
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