The United Service Magazine |
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Author:
| Pollock, Arthur William Alsager |
ISBN: | 978-0-217-61645-4 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2009 |
Publisher: | General Books LLC
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $38.79 |
Book Description:
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: shoes and gloves; but it would seem that hats did not begin to be worn till so late as the reign of the seventh Henry (1456 to ]509). At the close of the fifteenth century, however, the dress of the English must have been extremely absurd, for we are told that men and women looked so much alike, that it...
More DescriptionPurchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: shoes and gloves; but it would seem that hats did not begin to be worn till so late as the reign of the seventh Henry (1456 to ]509). At the close of the fifteenth century, however, the dress of the English must have been extremely absurd, for we are told that men and women looked so much alike, that it was often difficult to distinguish between them. The men wore petticoats over their lower clothing; their doublets were laced in front like a woman's stays across a stomacher; their gowns were open in the front to the girdle, and again from the girdle to the ground. Then (1683-4) came the use by gentlemen of muffs, a description of article the name of which, if not itself, continues in somewh;t popular use even at the present day. Then a century latter, came small cut coats stiffened with wire and buckram for the Lords of Creation of that day; while hooped petticoats of such extravagant dimensions were worn by the ladies, that in the words of a writer of the time (1718), when a slender virgin stands upon a basis so exorbitantly wide, she resembles a funnel, a figure of no great elegancy. Yet it needed a century and a quarter, at least, to develope in all its beautiful proportions the creation known to mortals as crinoline. One more extract on the subject of dress, and we pass on. Hear what Addison says, writing of the partiality to military colours shown by the young civilians of the west of England in 1711. When they go a wooing, whether they have any post in the Militia or not, they generally put on a red coat. Had the scarlet rag the same attractive influence upon other creatures than bulls and turkeys in the eighteenth, that is said to exist in the nineteenth century ? THE OLD SEVENTY-NINTH REGIMENT, AND THE CAPTURE OF MANILLA. The number Seventy-ni...