Calthrop, Dion Clayton, 1878-1937 · London, A. and C. Black · leaf 227
118 ENGLISH COSTUME great upon hunting and hawking, and this musthave been a convenient fashion to keep the hair inorder. Some wore a white sUk or linen cap, soshaped as to include and cover the two side-plaitsand combine a gorget and wimple in one. Pointedfrontals of pearls were worn across the… … and fillets of silk or linen were so tied that longends hung down the back. Yellow hair was much esteemed, and ladies whowere not favoured by Nature, brought saffron tothen- aid, and by such efforts brought Nature intoline with Art. There was the general custom of wearing thesurcoat in imitation of…
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