Calthrop, Dion Clayton, 1878-1937 · London, A. and C. Black · leaf 41
14 ENGLISH COSTUME Piers Gaveston, the gay, the graceless but grace-ful favourite, clever at the tournament, warlike andvain, may have instituted this complete revolutionin clothes with the aid of the weak King. Sufficient, perhaps, to say that, although long … robes continued to beworn, cotehardies wereaU the fashion. There was a general tendency to exaggeration.The hood was attacked by the dandies, and, insteadof its modest peak, they caused to be added along pipe of the material, which they called a liripipe. Every quaint thought and invention for…
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