Fales, Jane. [from old catalog] · New York, Chicago [etc.] C. Scribner's sons · leaf 53
dess crook. These fashions were of rathershort duration. As the stormydays of the French Revolutionapproached some of the gayabsurdities of the eighteenth-century costume vanished andin place many women wore acostume masculine in generalcharacter and little less exag-gerated than the other but in… … A costume of the English, or Pre-Revolution, period 36 Dressmaking waist line to which was frequently attached a full peplum.This increased the size of the hips and made the waist ap-pear small. The sleeves were long and very tight. Thesewaists were often ornamented with large metal buttonsand…
Dressmaking · Costume · Textile industry and fabrics
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