English costume from prehistoric times to the end of the eighteenth century (1910)
Clinch, George, 1860-1921 · Chicago : A. C. McClurg; London, Methuen · leaf 263
a pair ofhorns. This was the origin ofthe various kinds of head-dresseswhich are now known by thenames horned, mitre, lunate,and heart-shaped. Many specimens of this spe-cies of dressing the hair existin English church monuments,and the fashion was evidentlydeservedly popular for someyears. It is… … carried to great and absurd ex- Effigy of Millicent Meryng-,about 1415 (East Markham,Notts) tremes, as was the case in the brass effigy to Jane Keriell, about the year 1460, Ash, near Sandwich, Kent, in which the caul is carried 150 ENGLISH COSTUME upwards in the form of a large horse-shoe, and…
Costume -- Great Britain · England -- Social life and customs
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