English costume from prehistoric times to the end of the eighteenth century (1910)
Clinch, George, 1860-1921 · Chicago : A. C. McClurg; London, Methuen · leaf 249
th sexes during the fourteenthand fifteenth centuries. Orna-mentation in the form of a rowof buttons is found round thelower end of the cote-hardie,whilst an elegantly ornamentedgirdle was usually worn over it,encircling, not the waist, whichmight be considered the mostnatural position, but the… … 138 ENGLISH COSTUME Ladies wore the cote-hardie of greater length, some-times reaching to the feet. The sideless cote-hardie, which was a very fashion-able female garment in the Middle Ages, is repre-sented in various stages of development, in the seriesof effigies figured by T. and G. Hollis and…
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