The Book of Costume: Or, Annals of Fashion: From the Earliest Period to the Present TimeH. Colburn, 1846 - 482 páginas |
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... arms with white , the cheeks with red , the eyelids with black , and the fingers with rose colour , is , perhaps , the most ancient . Almost every nation of the world , men as well as women , whatever complexion Nature may have bestowed ...
... arms with white , the cheeks with red , the eyelids with black , and the fingers with rose colour , is , perhaps , the most ancient . Almost every nation of the world , men as well as women , whatever complexion Nature may have bestowed ...
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... arm . Sometimes bracelets were very massive : Livy speaks of those worn by the Sabine women , as being of great weight , and the Roman matrons are said to have had them frequently of from six to ten pounds in weight . Armillæ , we are ...
... arm . Sometimes bracelets were very massive : Livy speaks of those worn by the Sabine women , as being of great weight , and the Roman matrons are said to have had them frequently of from six to ten pounds in weight . Armillæ , we are ...
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... arms and legs . RINGS . The annulus , or ring , is also a very ancient orna- ment . Pliny tells us that the inventor of it is not known , but it was used by the Babylonians , Chaldeans , Persians , and Greeks , though Pliny thinks the ...
... arms and legs . RINGS . The annulus , or ring , is also a very ancient orna- ment . Pliny tells us that the inventor of it is not known , but it was used by the Babylonians , Chaldeans , Persians , and Greeks , though Pliny thinks the ...
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... arms , without a collar , but having a handsome trimming . The king's shoes are long and pointed , without heels , and have a square opening over the instep . Drawings made about this time , give us repre- sentations of men wearing caps ...
... arms , without a collar , but having a handsome trimming . The king's shoes are long and pointed , without heels , and have a square opening over the instep . Drawings made about this time , give us repre- sentations of men wearing caps ...
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... arms of the family of the lady , and that of her husband . Sometimes , too , curi- ous mottoes , or quaint devices , were worked on the borders . Towards the end of this reign , the trains of the gowns became so ridiculously long , that ...
... arms of the family of the lady , and that of her husband . Sometimes , too , curi- ous mottoes , or quaint devices , were worked on the borders . Towards the end of this reign , the trains of the gowns became so ridiculously long , that ...
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Términos y frases comunes
adorned Æneid ancient appear attire band beard beautiful blue bonnet border bracelets breeches broad buttons cambric caps capuchon caul chausses chin cloak cloth of gold coat coiffure collar colour costume covered cuffs curious curls doublet dress ear-rings embroidered embroidery England ermine fashion fastened feathers female forehead France French French hoods frequently front garments garters gentlemen girdle gowns habited hair hanging hats head head-dress Henry hoods hoop hose immense invented jacket jewelled band jewels king knees lace ladies lappets linen Louis XIV lower Madame mantle mentioned miniver mode muslin neck ornamented pearls peruke petticoat petticoat breeches plaid plaited precious stones Queen reign resembled riband rich robe round ruffles ruffs satin says scarlet seen shape shew shoes short shoulders silk silver slashed sometimes stockings surcoat trimmed tunic usually veil velvet vest waist waistcoat wear wearer wigs women wore worn wrist writer
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Página 20 - And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold; and said, Whose daughter art thou?
Página 435 - And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle.
Página 435 - For the man whom the king delighteth to honour, let the royal apparel be brought which the king useth to wear, and the horse that the king rideth upon, and the crown royal which is set upon his head: and let this apparel and horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king's most noble princes, that they may array the man withal whom the king delighteth to honour...
Página 150 - They let the hair of their heads grow to a great length ; but as the men make a great show with heads of hair that are none of their own, the women, who they say have very fine heads of hair, tie it up in a knot, and cover it from being seen. The women look like angels, and would be more beautiful than the sun, were it not for little black spots that are apt to break out in their faces, and sometimes rise in very odd figures. I have observed that those little blemishes wear off very soon ; but when...
Página 481 - The Arabian courtesans, like the Indian women, have little golden bells fastened round their legs, neck, and elbows, to the sound of which they dance before the King. The Arabian princesses wear golden rings on their fingers, to which little bells are suspended, as well as in the flowing tresses of their hair, that their superior rank may be known, and they themselves receive in passing the homage due to them.
Página 375 - ... four basins with a pleasing sound. The roof was painted with all sorts of flowers, falling out of gilded baskets, that seemed tumbling down. On a. sofa, raised three steps, and covered with fine Persian carpets, sat the...
Página 133 - Up, and put on my coloured silk suit, very fine, and my new periwig, bought a good while since, but durst not wear, because the plague was in Westminster when I bought it; and it is a wonder what will be the fashion after the plague is done, as to periwigs, for nobody will dare to buy any hair, for fear of the infection, that it had been cut off the heads of people dead of the plague My Lord Brouncker, Sir J.
Página 453 - ... are slit at the bottom, so as to make a sort of fringe. They also wear worsted stockings, or perhaps worsted fillets, rolled round their legs, and the warriors wear half-boots of white goat-skin.
Página 143 - One may observe that women in all ages have taken more pains than men to adorn the outside of their heads...
Página 147 - SPECTATOR, they will be kept within no compass. You praised them a little too soon, for the modesty of their head-dresses : for as the humour of a sick person is often driven out of one limb into another, their superfluity of ornaments, instead of being entirely banished, seems only fallen from their heads upon their lower parts. What they have lost in height they make up in breadth, and contrary to all rules of architecture, widen the foundations at the same time that they shorten the superstructure.