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English costume (1906)

Calthrop, Dion Clayton, 1878-1937 · London, A. and C. Black · leaf 91

An illustration from English costume, 1906, leaf 91
62 ENGLISH COSTUME So was much good cloth wasted in vanity, andmuch excellent time spent upon superfluities, tothe harm of the people; perhaps useful enoughto please the eye, which must have been regaled with aU thesemen in won-derful colours,strutting pea-cockwise. The poorpeasant, whofound… … THE WOMEN If ever women were led by the nose by thedemon of fashion it was at this time. Not onlywere their clothes ill-suited to them, but theyabused that crowning glory, their hair. No doubt a charming woman is always charming, RICHARD THE SECOND 53

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