Identifier: englishcostume04calt (find matches)
Title: English costume
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Calthrop, Dion Clayton, 1878-1937
Subjects: Costume -- Great Britain
Publisher: London, A. and C. Black
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellesley College Library

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^J^ A WOMAN OF THE TIME OF QUEEN ANNE (1702—1714) Notice that the fontage has become much lower, and the hoop of the skirt has become enormous. The hair is more naturally dressed.
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QUEEN ANNE 37 double row of flounces. Aprons are worn long, and have good pockets. Cuffs are deep, but are lowered to below the elbow. The bodice of the gown is cut high in the back and low in front, and is decked with a deep frill of lace or linen, which allows less bare neck to show than formerly. A very observant gentleman! But you have seen the new hoop? I ask him. Yes y he has seen it. As he rode into town he noticed that the old fashions gave way to new, that every mile brought the fontage lower and the hair more hidden, until short curls and a little cap of linen or lace entirely replaced the old high headdress and the profusion of curls on the shoulders. The hoop, he noticed, became larger and larger as he neared the town, and the train grew shorter, and the patterns on the underskirt grew larger with the hoop. I leave my gentleman from the country and I stroll about the streets to regard the fashions. Here, I see, is a gentleman in one of the new Ramillies wigs—a wig of white hair drawn back

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