Costume in England: A History of Dress from the Earliest Period Till the Close of the Eighteenth Century : To which is Appended an Illustrated Glossary of Terms for All Articles of Use Or Ornament Worn about the Person

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Chapman and Hall, 1846 - 618 Seiten
 

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Seite 309 - I knew not, very ordinarily apparelled, for it was a plain cloth suit, which seemed to have been made by an ill country tailor : his linen was plain and not very clean, and I remember a speck or two of blood upon his little band, which was not much larger than his collar : his hat was without a hat-band, his stature was of a good size, his sword stuck close to his side, his countenance swollen and reddish, his voice sharp and untunable, and his eloquence full of fervour, for the subjectmatter would...
Seite 354 - You see, Sir, my great great great grandmother has on the new-fashioned petticoat, except that the modern is gathered at the waist; my grandmother appears as if she stood in a large drum, whereas the ladies now walk as if they were in a gocart.
Seite 353 - ... the execution of such his office. An operator of this nature might act under me, with the same regard as a surgeon to a physician ; the one might be employed in healing those blotches and tumours which break out in the body, while the other is sweetening the blood and rectifying the constitution.
Seite 150 - Then was there flowing hair and extravagant dress; and then was invented the fashion of shoes with curved points; then the model for young men was to rival women in delicacy of person, to mince their gait, to walk with loose gesture, and half naked. Enervated and effeminate, they unwillingly remained what nature had made them; the assailers of others' chastity, prodigal of their own.
Seite 452 - I have heard it observed among them, that by how much the nobler a woman is, by so much the higher are her chapineys. All their gentlewomen and most of their wives and...
Seite 354 - I find most are of opinion, they are at present like trees new lopped and pruned, that will certainly sprout up and flourish with greater heads than before.
Seite 353 - THERE is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress. Within my own memory, I have known it rise and fall above thirty degrees. About ten years ago it shot up to a very great height, insomuch that t he female part of our species were much taller than the men *. The women were of such an enormous stature, that ' we appeared as grasshoppers before them...
Seite 518 - Art (which degree he obtained) with ruffianly hair;" and Nash informs us that " he cherished continually without cutting, a jolly long red peake like the spire of a steeple, whereat a man might hang a jewell, it was so sharp and pendent.
Seite 309 - The first time I ever took notice of him was in the very beginning of the Parliament held in November, 1640, when I vainly thought myself a courtly young gentleman — for we courtiers valued ourselves much upon our good clothes ! I came into the House one morning...
Seite 331 - It will be seen, however, by a glance at the cut, that they adopted a very grave costume previous to the Restoration. The originals from which they are copied occur upon the title-page of a rare satirical pamphlet of 1641, bearing the title of A Dreame, or Newes from Hell, with a relation of the great God Pluto suddenly falling sich by reason of this present Parliament; in which the

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