The Heritage of Dress: Being Notes on the History and Evolution of ClothesWebb, Wilfred Mark
History
The Heritage of Dress: Being Notes on the History and Evolution of Clothes
Webb, Wilfred Mark
Clothing and dress; Clothing and dress -- History
68. The original top boot with the upper part temporarily
turned down 65
69. The modern top boot in which the upper part can no longer
be turned up 66
70. Puttees 66
71. Leg bandages of a royal personage at the end of the tenth
century (after Fairholt) 67
72. A stocking with clocks 68
73. An embroidered stocking showing the further evolution of
the clock (date 1900) 69
74. An open-work stocking of 1905 69
75. A shawl used as a kilt by a chieftain of Denmark in the
bronze stage of culture (after Worsaae) 73
76. A simple dress in the form of a petticoat from an Egyptian
figure of the Sixth Dynasty (3500 B.C.), from the Myers
collection in Eton College Museum 74
77. A Korean servant (after Hough) 75
78. A short kilt 76
79. A barbarian soldier wearing characteristic trousers (from a
diptych of St. Paul, after Marriott) 78
80. A Saxon military man wearing wide trousers (from the
Harleian MS., No. 603, after Fairholt) 79
81. A peasant woman of Champéry wearing trousers 80
82. A German Hussar of 1808 81
83. The crest on a modern signet ring 85
84. Sir Geoffrey Loutterell and the ladies of his family,
showing the extent to which armorial bearings were worn
in the middle of the fourteenth century. From a psalter,
made for Sir Geoffrey (after Fairholt) 85
85. The crest and surcoat of Henry, first Duke of Lancaster,
A.D. 1347. From the brass to Sir Hugh Hasting at Elsyng,
Norfolk (after Charles Boutell) 86
86. The helmet and crest of the Black Prince. From "Vetusta
Monumenta" (after St. John Hope) 88
87. The shield of the Black Prince. From "Vetusta Monumenta"
(after St. John Hope) 89
88. The surcoat or jupon of the Black Prince. From "Vetusta
Monumenta" (after St. John Hope) 89
89. The postilion of a Lord Mayor of London, wearing a crest
upon his cap, and a coat of arms upon his sleeve (copied
by permission from a plate published by the John
Williamson Co., Ltd.) 92
90. A baby's glove without separate fingers 95
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