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English costume (1906)

Calthrop, Dion Clayton, 1878-1937 · London, A. and C. Black · leaf 207

An illustration from English costume, 1906, leaf 207
ny heads, so that when the looselove-locks and the dainty tendrils became thefashion, many good ladies and gentlemen hadrecourse to the wigmaker. From this time untilbut an hundred years ago, from the periwigbought for Sexton, the fool of Henry VIII., down A WOMAN OF THE TIME OF CHARLES… … CHARLES THE FIRST 133 to the scratches and bobs of ones grandfathersyouth, the wigmaker lived and prospered. To-day,more secretly yet more surely, does the maker oftransformations live and prosper, but in the dayswhen to be wigless was to be undressed theperruquier was a very great person. This was…

Costume -- Great Britain

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