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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 337

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to lead the prelateshorse by its bridle to the abbey. In the clown and the pantaloon we still have thedress of Elizabethan times (see Figures 157 and 159).The paint on the former, as we have seen, will carryus back to times of remote antiquity. His hat is of a 284 THE HERITAGE OF DRESS shape well… … Fig. 158.—The dress of a modern harlequin. Venice. Pantaleone was by no means an uncommonpatronymic in that place. In order to reconcile thestatements that the dress of the pantaloon is Eliza-bethan and his nether garments are Venetian, whichmight appear to be mutually contradictory, it must…

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