The Book of Costume: Or, Annals of Fashion: From the Earliest Period to the Present TimeH. Colburn, 1846 - 482 páginas |
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... hands of ten shekels weight of gold . " This was formerly the most universal of all orna- ments , and was worn either upon the wrist or upon the arm . Sometimes bracelets were very massive : Livy speaks of those worn by the Sabine women ...
... hands of ten shekels weight of gold . " This was formerly the most universal of all orna- ments , and was worn either upon the wrist or upon the arm . Sometimes bracelets were very massive : Livy speaks of those worn by the Sabine women ...
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... Among the Romans , before they were set with stones , it was the custom to wear them on whichever hand or fingers the wearer pleased ; but when the stones were added to them , it would have been considered the excess of INTRODUCTION . 21.
... Among the Romans , before they were set with stones , it was the custom to wear them on whichever hand or fingers the wearer pleased ; but when the stones were added to them , it would have been considered the excess of INTRODUCTION . 21.
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... hand adorned with one . The Greeks wore them exclusively on the fourth finger of the left hand , and gave as a reason for this custom , that this finger communicated by a small nerve with the heart . The Gauls and Britons , Pliny ...
... hand adorned with one . The Greeks wore them exclusively on the fourth finger of the left hand , and gave as a reason for this custom , that this finger communicated by a small nerve with the heart . The Gauls and Britons , Pliny ...
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... hand , looks like the en- chantress Circe over the companions of Ulysses , and changes them into as many forms . " Those who peruse these pages will be surprised to see for how many years French fashions have prevailed in England ; and ...
... hand , looks like the en- chantress Circe over the companions of Ulysses , and changes them into as many forms . " Those who peruse these pages will be surprised to see for how many years French fashions have prevailed in England ; and ...
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... hands had made . " And of Andromache we read : - " Far in the close recesses of the dome , Pensive she plies the melancholy loom ; A growing work employed her secret hours , Confusedly gay with intermingled flowers . " The ancients were ...
... hands had made . " And of Andromache we read : - " Far in the close recesses of the dome , Pensive she plies the melancholy loom ; A growing work employed her secret hours , Confusedly gay with intermingled flowers . " The ancients were ...
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Página 16 - 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 431 - 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 431 - 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 146 - 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 477 - 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 371 - ... 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 129 - 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 100 - Otto, some made round like a rubbing brush, others with a pique de vant (O fine fashion !), or now and then suffered to grow long, the barbers being grown to be so cunning in this behalf as the tailors.
Página 449 - The blankets are put on like Highland plaids, come down to near the knee, and are fastened with a belt. They also wear cotton trowsers, which, as well as their shirts, are worked all over with flowers in red and black worsted. The trowsers 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. The...