The heritage of dress; being notes on the history and evolution of clothes (1908)
Webb, Wilfred Mark, 1868- · New York, The McClure Co.; London, E. Grant Richards · leaf 117
right,however, to point out that these tubular garmentswere in olden days not associated with the highestcivilization. The Romans, for instance, did not weartrousers, though the nations whom they were pleasedto call barbarians, did. Some of the enemies of 78 THE HERITAGE OF DRESS Rome are shown on… … Fig. 79.—A barbarian soldier wearing characteristic trousers(from a diptych of St. Paul, after Marriott). The kilt is sometimes called the garb of old Gaul,but one province of the latter owes its name—GalliaBraccata—to the custom among its inhabitants ofwearing braccse or breeches. In our own…
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