arkable characteristic was the long hangingsleeves of the tunic, which, in some instances, were obliged to be tied up inknots when the bearers were moving about. This fashion is turned intoridicule in a droll figure of a devil given in the same MS. and representedin the cut at the end of our… … Saracens, must have brought home for their families many of the rich dressesof the Eastern ladies. The long plaited hair resembles, in some degree,that of the statue of Queen Clotilda from the church of Corbeil, in France,represented in one of the plates to the present work. The cut at the foot of…
Middle Ages · Costume · Decoration and ornament, Medieval
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