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English costume (1906)

Calthrop, Dion Clayton, 1878-1937 · London, A. and C. Black · leaf 19

An illustration from English costume, 1906, leaf 19
. 76 1820-1830 . 92 CHARLES THE SECOND Reigned twenty-five years : 1660—1685. Born 1630. Married, 1662, Katherine of Portugal. THE MEN AND WOMEN England, appar-ently with a sighof relief, lays asideher hair shirt, andproves that she hasbeen wearing a silkvest under it. Rib-bon - makers andwig -… … ENGLISH COSTUME that winked and flickered before the stern blackfigure in Geneva bands and prim curls is put toshame by the flare of a thousand candles shiningon the painted face, the exposed bosom, theflaunting love-locks of this Carolean deity. We have burst out into periwigs, monstrous,bushy; we…

Costume -- Great Britain

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