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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 199

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RVANTS DRESS 151 the bonnet and veil and severely cut collars and cuffsof the hospital nurse. Here again we get a case on all fours with theadoption of evening dress by waiters, and the gradualassumption by the lowew classes of the dress of theirsocial superiors. XVICOCKADES THE COCKADE A… … Fig, ii6.—The cockade, known as the large treble, representinga. survival of the chaperon. The books of an old-established firm of hat manu-facturers show that as late as 1789 cockades were 152 COCKADES 153 worn by gentlemen themselves. Apparently in thebeginning-, the sporting of a black cockade…

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