The Book of Costume: Or, Annals of Fashion: From the Earliest Period to the Present TimeH. Colburn, 1846 - 482 páginas |
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... kind , spread over the world , that edicts , laws , and ordinances , have been passed , from time to time , by many nations , to arrest the growing evil ; an evil created by that desire for personal dis- tinction which dwells , more or ...
... kind , spread over the world , that edicts , laws , and ordinances , have been passed , from time to time , by many nations , to arrest the growing evil ; an evil created by that desire for personal dis- tinction which dwells , more or ...
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... kind has created for the adornment of the person . Silks , satins , velvets , brocades , linens , cottons , muslins , gauzes , laces , assume , under the nimble fingers of Fashion's handmaids , every variety of shape , form , and hue ...
... kind has created for the adornment of the person . Silks , satins , velvets , brocades , linens , cottons , muslins , gauzes , laces , assume , under the nimble fingers of Fashion's handmaids , every variety of shape , form , and hue ...
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... allowed to heal , and the ear laden with every kind of ornament . The ear of a European lady would be looked upon with contempt by these Eastern fashionables of both sexes , for men as well as women wear the INTRODUCTION . 19.
... allowed to heal , and the ear laden with every kind of ornament . The ear of a European lady would be looked upon with contempt by these Eastern fashionables of both sexes , for men as well as women wear the INTRODUCTION . 19.
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... kind to the Romans , found their opinions on the expression , ' art of the Phrygians , ' which consisted only of needle- work . Lace worked by the needle may be found among old church furniture . We read in various authors , that the ...
... kind to the Romans , found their opinions on the expression , ' art of the Phrygians , ' which consisted only of needle- work . Lace worked by the needle may be found among old church furniture . We read in various authors , that the ...
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... kind of salver to the high - born criminal , is said to be the form of announcing his death - doom , his head being struck off at the same moment as he stretches it towards the fan . In the book of " Table Talk " we read : " In the ...
... kind of salver to the high - born criminal , is said to be the form of announcing his death - doom , his head being struck off at the same moment as he stretches it towards the fan . In the book of " Table Talk " we read : " In the ...
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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...