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 81
on there is a curious nick whichis repeated in the waistcoat if this be similarly pro-vided with lapels. (See Figure 32.) 41 42 THE HERITAGE OF DRESS There is always a temptation to invent some in-teresting theory in order to explain the origin ofvestiges, and a penny paper, which hardly boasts… … Fig. 33.—A stage when the nick was useful(Lucien Bonaparte, after Paul Lacroix). household, he cut the lapel of his coat. It was un-doubtedly a custom of the Jews to rend their gar-ments, but it does not, on the face of it, seem likelythat the practice would have influenced modern cos-tume. It…
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