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English costume (1906)

Calthrop, Dion Clayton, 1878-1937 · London, A. and C. Black · leaf 81

An illustration from English costume, 1906, leaf 81
writings of Tertullian, called by Sigis-mund Feyera-bendt, citizen andprinter of Frank-fort, a most strictcensor who mostseverely blameswomen : Comenow, says Ter-tullian, if fromthe first both theMilesians shearedsheep, and theChinese spun fromthe tree, and theTyrians dyed and the Phrygians… … 46 ENGLISH COSTUME suppose, would have desired these things on herexpulsion from Paradise, and when spirituallydead. One sees by the tortured and twisted Germanfashion that the hair was plaited, and so, incurves and twists, dropped into coarse gold-webnets, thrust into web nets with velvet pouches…

Costume -- Great Britain

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