The Book of Costume: Or, Annals of Fashion: From the Earliest Period to the Present TimeH. Colburn, 1846 - 482 páginas |
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... satins , velvets , brocades , linens , cottons , muslins , gauzes , laces , assume , under the nimble fingers of Fashion's handmaids , every variety of shape , form , and hue . JEWELLERY . The love of jewels and ornaments has been pre ...
... satins , velvets , brocades , linens , cottons , muslins , gauzes , laces , assume , under the nimble fingers of Fashion's handmaids , every variety of shape , form , and hue . JEWELLERY . The love of jewels and ornaments has been pre ...
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... gratitude of past and present ages . The looms of Persia , China , and Italy , are the most celebrated for the manufacture of silks , velvets , satins , and brocades ; 24 INTRODUCTION . Male Head-Dress in the Reign of Edward VI Female 99.
... gratitude of past and present ages . The looms of Persia , China , and Italy , are the most celebrated for the manufacture of silks , velvets , satins , and brocades ; 24 INTRODUCTION . Male Head-Dress in the Reign of Edward VI Female 99.
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... satins , and brocades ; and within the last few years , slight and beautifully coloured threads of glass have been interwoven with them , forming a new and much - admired production . Linen is a most useful and necessary addition to the ...
... satins , and brocades ; and within the last few years , slight and beautifully coloured threads of glass have been interwoven with them , forming a new and much - admired production . Linen is a most useful and necessary addition to the ...
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... satin , or brocade , flowered with gold and silver . Richard the Second's first queen , Anne , introduced Bohemian fashions among her new subjects , and certainly was herself a most celebrated leader of fashion . From Bohemia came ...
... satin , or brocade , flowered with gold and silver . Richard the Second's first queen , Anne , introduced Bohemian fashions among her new subjects , and certainly was herself a most celebrated leader of fashion . From Bohemia came ...
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... satin , and a bonet of purpell velvet . " The man- date from Richard the Third to his wardrobe - keeper , dated from ... satin , laced with silk , and adorned with tassels . To this magnificent dress was added a crim- son rose made of ...
... satin , and a bonet of purpell velvet . " The man- date from Richard the Third to his wardrobe - keeper , dated from ... satin , laced with silk , and adorned with tassels . To this magnificent dress was added a crim- son rose made of ...
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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...