English costume from prehistoric times to the end of the eighteenth century (1910)
Clinch, George, 1860-1921 · Chicago : A. C. McClurg; London, Methuen · leaf 247
me when swords were worn as much by privateindividuals as by members of the military and navalprofessions. The various changes and modifications throughwhich the coat has passed, from the vest of the timeof Charles II to the familiar form of our own day,would afford a sufficient theme for a long… … GENTLEMANS COAT AND TRUNKS, EARLY EIGHTEENTH CENTURY (from the isham collection) MEDIEVAL AND LATER GARMENTS 137 by which the bottom corners were turned up andfastened out of the way by buttons. The same thinghas clearly happened to the uppercorners, which were turned andbuttoned back out of the…
Costume -- Great Britain · England -- Social life and customs
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