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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
feet, getting his washing fornothing, and his meals passed up to him out by the chimney. Here is the old soldier begging in his tattered coat of red ; here is a suspicious-looking character with a black patch over his eye ; here the whalebone hoop of a petticoat takes up the way, and above the… … A MAN OF THE TIME OF GEORGE I.(1714—1727) The buckles on the shoes are now much larger ; thestockings are loosely rolled above the knee. Thegreat periwig is going out, and the looped and curledwig, very white with powder, is in fashion.

Costume -- Great Britain

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