English costume from prehistoric times to the end of the eighteenth century (1910)
Clinch, George, 1860-1921 · Chicago : A. C. McClurg; London, Methuen · leaf 274
U£t. ET S» A lady of about the year15S0 (Staplehurst, Kent) 156 ENGLISH COSTUME Here the hood is made of immense size, spreading outinto very large curves on each side, the veil broughtround the shoulders and hanging down below thewaist at the back like a cloak. Another less remark-able example is… … Ladys head-dress, 1568 of the hood forward over the top of the head, pro-ducing a curious flatness which can hardly be con-sidered graceful or pleasing. The examples in thebrasses to Aphra Hawkins, at Fordwich, Kent, 1605,and Mary Leventhorp, at Sawbridgeworth, Hertford-shire, 1600, show this…
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