The heritage of dress; being notes on the history and evolution of clothes (1912)
Webb, Wilfred Mark, 1868- · London, The Times Book Club · leaf 257
d there is an interest-ing case which Disraeli^ gives in his Curiosities ofLiterature/ in which, as part of a quit-rent or feudal tenure—^whenever the Abbot of Figeac entered this town—theLord of Montbron, dressed in a harlequins coat, with oneof his legs bare, has to lead the prelates horse by its… … Figure 158.—The dressmodem harlequin. of 212 THE HERITAGE OF DRESS antiquity. His hat is of a shape well known in early Englishhistory, and he himself is English all through. The pantaloon,again, is Italian. Both he and his Venetian breeches get their names from St. Pantaleone, oneof the patron…
Costume · Clothing and dress
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