Calthrop, Dion Clayton, 1878-1937 · London, A. and C. Black · leaf 77
38 ENGLISH COSTUME great upon hunting and hawking, and this musthave been a convenient fashion to keep the hair inorder. Some wore a white silk or Hnen 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 sUk 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 totheir 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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