Fales, Jane. [from old catalog] · New York, Chicago [etc.] C. Scribner's sons · leaf 35
e worn exceedingly tight, giving the figure a very uglyoutline. Several remarkable head-coverings which were worn inthe fourteenth and fifteenth centuries showed more thananything else the caprice of the period. They were round,cone-shaped, heart-shaped, or pointed. They were fre-quently hung with… … Costume of the transition period 18 Dressmaking shaped, and to them were attached enormous frames ofwire which were covered with gauze and various fine ma-terials. The gauzes were starched and stood out in stifffolds. The hennin lasted about seventy-five years, from1395 to 1470. At the last of the…
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