English costume from prehistoric times to the end of the eighteenth century (1910)
Clinch, George, 1860-1921 · Chicago : A. C. McClurg; London, Methuen · leaf 271
long frontlets reachingto the waist, or nearly so,have the effect of giving arather formal, melancholyexpression to the counten-ance of the wearer, and itmay have been for this reason that the next fashion,much in vogue during the reign of Henry VIII,was in the direction of shortening the lappets… … Ladys head-dress, 1533 154 ENGLISH COSTUME A brass at Bletchingley, Surrey, dated 1541, shows thishead-dress well. In the portraits of Lady Jane Grey, Queen Mary,and Queen Elizabeth a new and very charming featurein head-dresses makes its appearance, namely, theFrench hood, a type which, as the…
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