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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A WOMAN OF THE TIME OF JAMES II.(1685—1689) Notice the broad collar again in use, also thenosegay. The sleeves are more in the mannishfashion.
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JAMES THE SECOND 17 take to the long coat, a suit of black grogram belowthe knees, a sash, and a walking-stick ; for the cold,a short black cloak. In the country the changewould be very noticeable. The country town, thecountryside, was, until a few years back, distinctlyPuritanical in garb ; there were Elizabethan doub-lets on old men, and wide Cromwellian breeches,patched doubtless, walked the market-place. Hairwas worn short. Now the russet brown clothestake a decided character in the direction of thePersian coat and knickerbockers closed at the knee.The good-wife of the farmer knots aloose cloth over her head, and pops abroad-brimmed mans hat over it. Shehas the sleeves of her dress made withturned-back cuffs, like her husbands,ties her shoes with strings, laces herdress in front, so as to show a bright-coloured under-bodice, and, as like asnot, wears a green pinner (an apron withbib, which was pinned on to the dress),and altogether brings herself up to date. One might see the farm

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