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 119
e-breeches of various kinds flourished fromtime to time, until recently, when the original and lesselegant garment once more triumphed and becamepart of the everyday dress of men. Boys still wear 8o THE HERITAGE OF DRESS knickerbockers in one stage of their development,intermediate between the… … Fig. 8i.—A peasant woman of Champ^ry wearing trousers. Trousers are often wrongly thought to be a moderninvention, and it is easy to go away with the ideathat they are exclusively the attributes of men. Thisis far from being the case, and as in Scotland we findthe petticoat still in use by men, so…
Costume · Clothing and dress
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