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English costume (1906)

Calthrop, Dion Clayton, 1878-1937 · London, A. and C. Black · leaf 192

An illustration from English costume, 1906, leaf 192
girl or two has stolen into the frontrow. The King, turning to make a laughingremark to one of his courtiers, will see a roguish,pretty face behind him—the face of a merchantswife ; he will smUe at her in a meaning way. THE WOMEN France, at this date, showsus a sartorial Savonarola, byname Thomas… … 126 ENGLISH COSTUME wrapped in plain linen wimples or some littleunaffected caps. But the ashes were hardly coldbefore the gray light of the next day showed thefigure of the dreaded preacher small upon thehorizon, and lit upon the sewing-maids as they satmaking fresh steeples for the adornment of…

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