A history of English dress from the Saxon period to the present day (1893)
Hill, Georgiana · London : Richard Bentley and Son · leaf 269
laced down th<back, or fastened with hooks and eyes, to th(intense discomfort of the wearer, who, in either casecould not perform her toilet unaided. This was th<age of the large brooches which were used to fasterthe collar or the pelerine, worn with the half-higlmorning gown. Some of these… … y< . Lczdnn F.-rBHrii Ri-wTic-y 4- 5 . aiic POPULARITY OF BRIGHT COLOURS. 247 adopted by the nobility. . . . They are only half-high. How will the English ladies like exposingtheir fair necks to the scorching rays of the sun ?Every succeeding year dress became more patchyand ungraceful.…
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