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English costume (1906)

Calthrop, Dion Clayton, 1878-1937 · London, A. and C. Black · leaf 73

An illustration from English costume, 1906, leaf 73
way, elaborated, in fact, out of existence. In order to make the head-dress in its 1509 state you must make the white lining with the jewelled turnover as a separate cap. However, I think that the drawings speak for themselves more plainly than I can write. Every device for crowding jewels together… … 42 ENGLISH COSTUME and passed, as a rule, under the lawn shift. Largebrooches decorated the bodices, brooches with dropornaments, the body of the brooch of fine goldworkmanship, many of them wrought in Italy.The shift, delicately embroidered with black silk,had often a band of jewellery upon it,…

Costume -- Great Britain

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