The heritage of dress; being notes on the history and evolution of clothes (1912)
Webb, Wilfred Mark, 1868- · London, The Times Book Club · leaf 35
mple the race, the greateris its love of ornament. The cave-mans sketch shows a womanwho is devoid of clothing, but who wears bracelets, while it isSEiid that in the original a necklace can be traced, though owingto an injury to the fragment of bone on which the drawing wasmade, the head of the… … Figure t.—Drawing of a woman engraved by a cave-man.{Modified from Wilson.) anklets rise in succession nearly to the knee. In other partsof the same continent we find similar instances where ornamentsare more important than clothes, (See Plate II.) Again, inNew Guinea the women of some tribes who…
Costume · Clothing and dress
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