A few verbal alterations only have been made in the original;—the good sense of every reader will enable him to understand the local allusions, and where they belong to England alone, to make the application.
[CONTENTS.]
| [CHAPTER I.] | |
| PAGE | |
| DESCRIPTION OF HEAD-DRESSES, | 1 |
| [CHAPTER II.] | |
| DRESS, AS A FINE ART, | 10 |
| [CHAPTER III.] | |
| THE HEAD, | 53 |
| [CHAPTER IV.] | |
| THE DRESS, | 61 |
| [CHAPTER V.] | |
| THE FEET, | 73 |
| [CHAPTER VI.] | |
| REMARKS ON PARTICULAR COSTUMES, | 84 |
| [CHAPTER VII.] | |
| ORNAMENT—ECONOMY, | 95 |
| [CHAPTER VIII.] | |
| SOME THOUGHTS ON CHILDREN'S DRESS.—BY MRS. MERRIFIELD, | 121 |
[ILLUSTRATIONS.]
| [PLATE I.] | |
| Figure 1. | Head-dress of Lady Ardene. |
| 2. | A kind of hat. |
| 3. | Steeple head-dress. |
| 4, 6. | Head-dresses of Lady Rolestone. |
| 5. | Heart-shaped head-dresses. |
| 7, 8. | Head-dresses of the time of Henry VIII. |
| 9, 11. | Hats of the time of George II. |
| 10. | Nithsdale hood. |
| 12. | Hat of the time of William III. |
| 13, 14. | Hats of the time of Charles I. |
| 15, 16, 17. | Head-dresses of 1798. |
| 18. | Head-dress of 1700. |
| 19. | Head-dress of the time of Henry VI. |
| 20. | Combination of figs. 7, 8. |
| 21, 22. | Hats for ladies in 1786. |
| 23. | Style of 1785. |
| 24, 25, 26. | Style of 1782. |
| [PLATE II.] | |
| Figure 27. | Style of 1782. |
| 28, 30. | Head-dress of 1790. |
| 29. | Head-dress of the French peasantry. |
| 31. | Fashion of 1791. |
| 32, 33. | Fashion of 1789. |
| 36. | Head-dress of the commencement of the present century. |
| 35. | English housemaid. |
| 37. | Gigot sleeves, with cloak worn over. |
| 38. | From a picture in the Louvre. |
| [PLATE III.] | |
| Figure 39. | Dress, with short waist and sleeves. |
| 41. | Dress of the mother of Henry IV. |
| 40. | Dress of Henrietta Maria. |
| 42. | From the “Illustrated London News.” |
| [PLATE IV.] | |
| Figures 43, 44. | From the plates of Sommaering, shows the waist of the Venus of antiquity. |
| 45, 46. | The waist of a modern lady, from the above. |
| 49. | From the “London News.” |
| 50. | Woman of Mitylene. |
| 53. | Algerine woman. |
| 54. | The archon's wife. |
| [PLATE V.] | |
| Figure 47. | Athenian peasant. |
| 48. | Shepherdess of Arcadia. |
| 51. | Athenian woman. |
| 52. | French costume of the tenth century. |
| 62. | Lady of the time of Henry V. |
| [PLATE VI.] | |
| Figure 55. | After Parmegiano. |
| 56. | Titian's daughter. |
| 57. | Lady Harrington. |
| 59. | Roman peasant. |
| 61. | Gigot sleeves. |
| [PLATE VII.] | |
| Figure 63. | From Bonnard's Costumes. |
| 64. | Sancta Victoria. |
| 65. | Anne, Countess of Chesterfield, from Vandyck. |
| 67. | Woman of Markinitza. |
| [PLATE VIII.] | |
| Figure 60. | Lady Lucy Percy, from Vandyck. |
| 69, 70. | By Jules David, in “Le Moniteur de la Mode.” |
| 68. | The hoop, after Hogarth. |
| [PLATE IX.] | |
| Figure 66. | From Rubens's “Descent from the Cross.” |
| 71. | From a drawing by Gainsborough. |
| 72. | Woman of Myconia. |
| 74. | Queen Anne. |
| [PLATE X.] | |
| Figure 73. | Charlotte de la Tremouille. |
| 75. | After Gainsborough. |
| 76. | After Gainsborough. |
| 77. | Costume of Mrs. Bloomer. |
| [PLATE XI.] | |
| Figure 78. | From the embroidery on fig. 47, pl. 5. |
| 79. | From the sleeve of the same dress, above. |
| 80. | From the sleeve of the pelisse. |
| 81. | The pattern embroidered from the waist to the skirt of the dress, fig. 51, pl. 5. |
| 82. | The border of the shawl, fig. 51. |
| 83. | Sleeve of the same, figure 51. |
| 84. | Design on the apron, fig. 48, pl. 5. |
| 85. | From the border of the same dress, fig. 48. |
| [PLATE XII.] | |
| Figure 86. | Pattern round the hem of the long under dress, fig. 51, pl. 5. |
| 87, 88. | Borders of shawls. |
| 89. | Infant's dress, exhibited at the World's Fair in London. |
| [90, 91.] | From “Le Moniteur de la Mode,” by Jules David and Réville, published at Paris, London, New York, and St. Petersburg. |
[CHAPTER I.]
DESCRIPTION OF HEAD-DRESSES.
[Fig. 1] is a front view of a head-dress of Lady Arderne, (who died about the middle of the fifteenth century.) The caul of the head-dress is richly embroidered, the veil above being supported by wires, in the shape of a heart, with double lappets behind the head, which are sometimes transparent, as if made of gauze.