The Book of Costume: Or, Annals of Fashion: From the Earliest Period to the Present TimeH. Colburn, 1846 - 482 σελίδες |
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... worn by her courtiers , to the standard she considered fitting for subjects to assume ; and , fearful that so arbitrary a law might be in some way or other evaded by the votaries of fashion , she appointed officers , whose sole duty it ...
... worn by her courtiers , to the standard she considered fitting for subjects to assume ; and , fearful that so arbitrary a law might be in some way or other evaded by the votaries of fashion , she appointed officers , whose sole duty it ...
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... worn by the followers of the faithful , instead of the lofty calpac , or ample turban . This law was , however , received with the most determined and indignant remonstrance and opposition , and so obnoxious to the Turkish feelings was ...
... worn by the followers of the faithful , instead of the lofty calpac , or ample turban . This law was , however , received with the most determined and indignant remonstrance and opposition , and so obnoxious to the Turkish feelings was ...
Σελίδα 13
... worn were made of painted hair , glued together . An account is given of that worn by the Emperor Commodus ; it is described as having been powdered with gold , and previously oiled and perfumed , to cause the gold to adhere to it . In ...
... worn were made of painted hair , glued together . An account is given of that worn by the Emperor Commodus ; it is described as having been powdered with gold , and previously oiled and perfumed , to cause the gold to adhere to it . In ...
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... worn either upon the wrist or upon the arm . Sometimes bracelets were very massive : Livy speaks of those worn by the Sabine women , as being of great weight , and the Roman matrons are said to have had them frequently of from six to ...
... worn either upon the wrist or upon the arm . Sometimes bracelets were very massive : Livy speaks of those worn by the Sabine women , as being of great weight , and the Roman matrons are said to have had them frequently of from six to ...
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... worn by the king and his sons . At various times , both in England and Ireland , armillæ have been dug out of the chalk - cliffs or out of the bogs , and one was found on the wrist of a skeleton , in the East Riding of York- shire ...
... worn by the king and his sons . At various times , both in England and Ireland , armillæ have been dug out of the chalk - cliffs or out of the bogs , and one was found on the wrist of a skeleton , in the East Riding of York- shire ...
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Σελίδα 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?
Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 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...
Σελίδα 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...
Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 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...
Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 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...