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Title: English costume
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Calthrop, Dion Clayton, 1878-1937
Subjects: Costume -- Great Britain
Publisher: London, A. and C. Black
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellesley College Library

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A MAN OF THE TIME OF WILLIAM ANDMARY (1689—1702) Strings again in use on the shoes. Cuffs muchbroader; wigs more full; skirts wider. Coat leftopen to show the long waistcoat.
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WILLIAM AND MARY 21 fellow of high tone. The more enormous is ourwig, the more frequently we take a pinch of VioletStrasburg or Best Brazil, Orangery, Bergamotte, orJassamena, the more shall we be followed by personsanxious to learn the fashion. We may even drawa little silver bowl from our pocket, place it ona seat by us, and, in meditative mood, spit therein. We have gone completely into skirted coats andbig flapped waistcoats; we have adopted the bigcufF buttoned back; we have given up altogetherthe wide knee-breeches, and wear only breeches nottight to the leg, but just full enough for comfort. The hats have altered considerably now ; they arecocked up at all angles, turned off the forehead,turned up one side, turned up all round; some arefringed with gold or silver lace, others are crownedwith feathers. We hear of such a nimiber of claret-coloured suitsthat we must imagine that colour to be all the rage,and, in contrast to other times not long gone by,we must stiffen ourselves in

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