Calthrop, Dion Clayton, 1878-1937 · London, A. and C. Black · leaf 462
partlets. Sir F. Madden says: The partlet evidentlyappears to have been the corset or habit-shirtworn at that period, and which so commonlyoccurs in the portraits of the time, generally madeof velvet and ornamented with precious stones. Hall, the author of Satires, 1598, speaks of a A MAN AND WOMAN… … EDWARD THE SIXTH 279 man, an effeminate dandy, as wearing a partletstrip. It appears to me, who am unwilliQglyforced into judging between so many learnedpersons, that, from all I have been able to gatherfrom contemporary records and papers, the partlet
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