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Title: English Costume

Author: Dion Clayton Calthrop

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Language: English

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ENGLISH COSTUME

Painted & Described by

DION CLAYTON CALTHROP

Published
by Adam & Charles Black
London . MCMVII

[Illustration: {Scissors}]

Published in four volumes during 1906.

Published in one volume, April, 1907.

Agents

America The Macmillan Company
64 & 66 Fifth Avenue, New York

Canada The Macmillan Company of Canada, Ltd.
70 Bond Street, Toronto

India Macmillan & Company, Ltd.
Macmillan Building, Bombay
309 Bow Bazaar Street, Calcutta

[Illustration: A MAN OF THE TIME OF GEORGE IV. (1820-1830)

Here you see the coat which we now wear, slightly altered, in our
evening dress. It came into fashion, with this form of top-boots, in
1799, and was called a Jean-de-Bry. Notice the commencement of the
whisker fashion.]

INTRODUCTION

The world, if we choose to see it so, is a complicated picture of
people dressing and undressing. The history of the world is composed
of the chat of a little band of tailors seated cross-legged on their
boards; they gossip across the centuries, feeling, as they should,
very busy and important. Someone made the coat of many colours for
Joseph, another cut into material for Elijah's mantle.

Baldwin, from his stall on the site of the great battle, has only to
stretch his neck round to nod to the tailor who made the toga for
Jul