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English Costume

  • Anastasiya Glushkovaцитирует10 лет назад
    It was the fashion to wear new clothes on the Queen’s birthday, March 1, and then the streets noted the loyal people who indulged their extravagance or pushed a new fashion on that day.
  • Anastasiya Glushkovaцитирует10 лет назад
    He carries a chapeau bras under his arm—a hat for carrying only, since he will not ruffle his wig.
  • Anastasiya Glushkovaцитирует10 лет назад
    The ruffs and collars of lace were starched in many colours—purple, goose-green, red and blue, yellow being completely out of the fashion since the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury by Mrs. Anne Turner, the friend of the Countess of Somerset; and this because Mrs. Turner elected to appear at the gallows in a yellow ruff.
  • Anastasiya Glushkovaцитирует10 лет назад
    Ladies went masked about the streets and in the theatres, or if they wished to be unconventional, they sat in the playing booths unmasked, their painted faces exposed to the public gaze.
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