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English costume (1906)

Calthrop, Dion Clayton, 1878-1937 · London, A. and C. Black · leaf 119

An illustration from English costume, 1906, leaf 119
HENRY THE FOURTH 73 Let us take six gentlemen met together tolearn the old thirteenth - century part-song, theround entitled Sumer is icumen in. The fiist, maybe, is in the high-collared houppe-lande with the long skirts ; his sleeves are of adifferent colour to his gown, and are fastened to… … a baldrick, hung with bells, over his shoulder;his houppelande is split on one side to show hisparti-coloured hose beyond his knee; his shoesare long and very pointed; his hair is cut short,and he wears a twisted roll of stuff round hishead. The second is in the latest mode ; he wears the VOL. II.…

Costume -- Great Britain

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