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English costume (1906)

Calthrop, Dion Clayton, 1878-1937 · London, A. and C. Black · leaf 94

An illustration from English costume, 1906, leaf 94
old at the seams; gentlemen ofthe Horse Grenadiers, in their caps of sky-bluecloth, with the garter embroidered on the fiont ingold and silver; men of the Halberdiers, in theirlong red coats, as bluff Harry left them, with theirruffs and velvet flat-caps. Perhaps the KingsMajesty himself is going… … which has never been surpassed, the heels, if you please, painted by Vandermeulen with scenes fromRhenish victories! Or we go tothe toy-shops in Fleet Street,where we may make assignationsor buy us a mask, where loadeddice are slyly handed over thecounter. Everywhere—the beau.He rides the world…

Costume -- Great Britain

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