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English costume (1907)

Calthrop, Dion Clayton, 1878-1937 · London, A. and C. Black · leaf 510

An illustration from English costume, 1907, leaf 510
is made of cambric and cut lace sewn onto wires bentinto the shaperequired. In such atime of ex-travagance infashion theadditions onemay make toany form ofdress in theway of ribbons, bows, sewn pearls, cuts, slashes,and puffs are without number, and I can only givethe structure on which such… … 310 ENGLISH COSTUME this fashion was more common to men thanwomen. Hats were interchangeable, more especi-ally the trim hat with a feather, in shape like thoseworn by the Yeoman of the Guard, but smaller. The shoulder pinions of the jerkins were puffed,slashed, and beribboned in every way. The…

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