Costume: Fanciful, Historical and Theatrical

Name: Costume: Fanciful, Historical and Theatrical
Author: Aria, Mrs. (Eliza Davis)

Aria, Mrs. (Eliza Davis)

Costume -- History

IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY                                      78

    CHAPTER IX

    IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY                                      92

    CHAPTER X

    OF BRITISH PEASANTS                                           106

    CHAPTER XI

    OF SOME FOREIGN PEASANTS                                      115

    CHAPTER XII

    OF SOME FOREIGN PEASANTS (_continued_)                        130

    CHAPTER XIII

    OF ORIENTAL DRESS                                             147

    CHAPTER XIV

    OF ORIENTAL DRESS (_continued_)                               163

    CHAPTER XV

    OF FANCY DRESS                                                178

    CHAPTER XVI

    OF DOMINOES AND MASKS                                         190

    CHAPTER XVII

    OF MATERIALS, THE CORSET, AND THE CRINOLINE                   201

    CHAPTER XVIII

    OF CEREMONIAL AND BRIDAL DRESS                                211

    CHAPTER XIX

    OF DANCING DRESSES, EUROPEAN AND ORIENTAL, ANCIENT AND
      MODERN                                                      225

    CHAPTER XX

    OF THEATRICAL DRESS                                           236

ILLUSTRATIONS

    COLOURED

                                                                 PAGE

    Coquelin, as Cyrano de Bergerac. (From a Water-Colour
    Drawing by Percy Anderson)                          _Frontispiece_

    In Ancient Greece                                    _To face_  5

    In the Twelfth Century                                   "     12

    In the Thirteenth Century                                "     22

    The Queen of Richard II.                                 "     28

    A German Student in the Fourteenth Century               "     32

    Varieties of the Hennin                                  "     40

    In the Eighteenth Century                                "     78

    Albanian Peasants                                        "    120

    In Corfu To-day                                          "    126

    In China of Old                                          "    147

    The Seville Orange                                       "    180

    An Egyptian Dancer                                       "    226

    Isolde                                                   "    240

    Lewis Waller as Henry V.                                 "    250

    Othello                                                  "    254

    IN THE TEXT

    Two Hand-Mirrors                                                4

    A Roman Head--A Greek Head                                      6

    A Roman Lady                                                    7

    A Dress laced in the Front--A Dress laced at the Back          11

    A Coronet--A Brooch                                            13

    A Plain Wimple                                                 14

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Costume: Fanciful, Historical and Theatrical

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