English costume (1906) (14598051919)

Identifier: englishcostume04calt (find matches)
Title: English costume
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Calthrop, Dion Clayton, 1878-1937
Subjects: Costume -- Great Britain
Publisher: London, A. and C. Black
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellesley College Library



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aflight to Calais ; from Calais to Paris ; and then, atlast, to Caen, and the bitter, bitter end, mumblingand mad, to die in the Bon Sauveur. Place him beside the man who once pretendedto be his friend, the man of whom Thackeray spokeso truly: But a bow and a grin. I try and takehim to pieces, and find silk stockings, padding,stays, a coat with frogs and a fur coat, a star and ablue ribbon, a pocket handkerchief prodigiouslyscented, one of Truefitts best nutty-brown wigsreeking with oil, a set of teeth, and a huge blackstock, under-waistcoats, more under-waistcoats, andthen nothing. Nothing ! Thackeray is right; absolutely nothingremains of this King George of ours but a sale listof his wardrobe, a wardrobe which fetched £15,000 A MAN OF THE TIME OF GEORGE IV.(1820—1830) Here you see the coat which we now wear, slightlyaltered, in our evening dress. It came into fashion,with this form of top-boots, in 1799, and was calleda Jean-de-Bry. Notice the commencement of thewhisker fashion.
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GEORGE THE FOURTH 98 second-hand—a wardrobe that had been a man.He invented a shoe-buckle 1 inch long and5 inches broad. He wore a pink silk coat withwhite cuffs. He had 5,000 steel beads on his hat.He was a coward, a good-natured, contemptiblevoluptuary. Beside him, in our eyes, walks for atime the elegant figure of Beau Brummell. 1have said that Brummell was the inventor ofmodern dress: it is true. He was the Beau whoraised the level of dress from the slovenly, dirtylinen, the greasy hair, the filthy neck-cloth, thecrumbled collar, to a position, ever since heldby Englishmen, of quiet, unobtrusive cleanliness,decent linen, an abhorrence of striking forms ofdress. He made clean linen and washing daily a partof English life. See him seated before his dressing-glass, amahogany-framed sliding cheval glass with brassarms on either sides for candles. By his side isGeorge IV., recovering from his dnmken bout oflast night. The Beaus glass reflects his clean-com-plexioned face, his grey ey