Illustrations in Black and White THE END OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY DRAWINGS TO ILLUSTRATE THE COSTUME OF THE REIGN OF GEORGE THE THIRD Title: English Costume Author: Dion Clayton Calthrop Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 ENGLISH COSTUMEENGLISH COSTUME Published in four volumes during 1906. Published in one volume, April, 1907. AGENTS
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. |