Costume: fanciful, historical, and theatrical (1906)
Aria, Mrs. (Eliza Davis), 1866-1931 · London, New York, Macmillan and co.; · leaf 102
COSTUME 68 CHAP. With the farthingale were worn long sleeves, lace coifs, and fluted basques, and stomachers ; and later the long sleeves were replaced by those reach¬ ing the elbow, made in … A FULL APRON. The kings’ favourites in France influenced dress by their caprices, which made to some extent for beauty, not conspicuously evident when the fontanges head-decoration was in vogue. This was a polyglot erection which owed its birth to the fact that the famous beauty, losing her hat one…
Costume -- History
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