Calthrop, Dion Clayton, 1878-1937 · London, A. and C. Black · leaf 69
genet youmust be royal; to wear sableyou must rank above a viscount;to wear martin or velvet trim-ming you must be worth overtwo hundred marks a year. Short hair came into fashionabout 1521. So well known is the storyof Sir Philip Calthrop and John Drakes theshoemaker of Norwich, who tried to ape… … ENGLISH COSTUME effect: Drakes, the shoemaker, seeing that thecounty talked of Sir Philips clothes, ordered agown from the same tailor. This reached the earsof Sir Philip, who then ordered his gown to becut as full of slashes as the shears could make it.The ruin of cloth so staggered the shoemaker
Costume -- Great Britain
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