Identifier: costumefancifulh00ariauoft (find matches)
Title: Costume: fanciful, historical, and theatrical
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Aria, Eliza (Davis) 1866-
Subjects: Costume
Publisher: London Macmillan
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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AN ITALIAN GENTLEMAN. head-dress late into the sixteenth century ; and talking of Spain, I am reminded of that illustration opposite, where a m^-^-..M^^mmmmmmmm (
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A SPANIARD IV THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 62 COSTUME CHAP. sixteenth-century Spaniard is exploiting an unusualform of trunk, in cut-out cloth, showing whitebeneath, and buttoned with straps on to the hose.His white shirt is slashed, and from the double collar falls a tassel ;tassels are pendentfrom the drapery ofthe long gold-borderedcloak, and a gold netappears beneath thecharacteristic cap ofvelvet. The picture onpage 64 of Maxi-milian of fame showshim brave in up-standing felt hat,encircled with flaunt-_J^^ ing feathers, and be-■ gp^ neath this a stripedscarf is bound roundhis head, and themonstrous sleeves haveslashings of colour.Tassels dangle fromthe scarf beneath thechin and over eitherear, and bold bowsassert themselves above one knee, and claim theirright to hold the folds of his sash in front. A sixteenth-century sacque coat in its originalsin—or grace—appears illustrated on the left, withsleeves slashed and the armholes bearing paddedrolls on the top. The inner vest has a

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