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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 68

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from the other would, initself, form a chapter in the Evolu-tion of Dress. The clerical collar Figure 38.—A stage inthe reduction of the bands. (A portrait of Jan Steen,from The Ilhistrated Maga-zine of Art.) may be singled out, as it fastensbehind like the bands, though thereason for this is not… … -^=5- a fad may be carried, and the curious, not to say monstrous, structures that are its cul-minations. These, like thehuge creatures of bygoneages, die out, but differ inthis respect that they some-times revive for a time.For instance, only a fewyears have passed since thecollars of ladies…

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