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The heritage of dress; being notes on the history and evolution of clothes (1912)

Webb, Wilfred Mark, 1868- · London, The Times Book Club · leaf 61

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ee Figure 31), or the Enghsh officer,say, of the 90th Light Infantry of1794. The replacement of hooks by buttonswould give us a third row, as seen inthe postihons jacket. Fashion after-wards decreed that the coats shouldbe fastened again with hooks, butthe two rows of buttons remained. In the coat… … S^^^;^^^i^j Figure 27. — A coatsleeve (after Hogarth)with a horizontal row ofbuttons. 28 THE HERITAGE OF DRESS there are the two side rows of buttons, to which is fasteneda red front, or plastron. This appears to represent the tworevers combined. In the year 1907 anumber of ladies dresses were to…

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