The Heritage of Dress. Wilfred Mark Webb

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Название The Heritage of Dress
Автор произведения Wilfred Mark Webb
Жанр Документальная литература
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IV. Reproduction of a brass to John Brandon and his two wives in the Church of St. Mary, King’s Lynn. Date, 1364. On the male figure, continuous rows of buttons run from the wrist to the elbow of the under-vest. The women wear the wimple and gorget or throat cloth 38 V. A Siamese Princess wearing trousers 81 VI. Two Padaung women, showing the numerous metal collars which they wear round their necks 114 VII. Methods of hairdressing, illustrated by Romano-Egyptian portrait models in the Myers Collection, Eton College Museum. (From photographs by Wilfred Mark Webb) 129 VIII. A barge girl, showing the costume worn on the canals. (From a photograph by Wakefield Brentford) 150 IX. Fig. A. The cap worn by the scholars of Christ’s Hospital until the middle of the nineteenth century. Fig. B. A scholar of Christ’s Hospital. (By the courtesy of the Rev. A. W. Upcott, M.A., Head Master of Christ’s Hospital) 167 X. Fig. A. The head of a clown, showing the painted face, the ruff, and the Elizabethan method of doing the hair. Fig. B. The face of a Japanese actor (after Moseley, by the courtesy of Mr. John Murray). Fig. C. The painted face of a paper figure which is burned at Chinese funerals (after Moseley, by the courtesy of Mr. John Murray). Fig. D. The tattooed head of a Moorish chief. (By the courtesy of General Robley) 270 XI. Wooden stay busks. These incidentally show survivals of primitive ornament. From The Reliquary, by kind permission of Messrs. Bemrose & Sons, Ltd. 326

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1. Drawing of a woman engraved by a cave man 9
2. Sketch showing the development of the tunic. In this stage it has no arms 17
3. Diagram showing the way in which a sleeved tunic is derived from the shawl 18
4. A smock frock 19
5. Jacket of a woman, made in one piece. Bronze stage of culture (after Worsaae) 19
6. Man’s dress showing buttons on the right side 20
7. Woman’s dress showing buttons on the left side 21
8. Diagram showing how a man does up a button. First stage 23
9. Diagram showing how a man does up a button. Second stage 23
10. Diagram showing how a woman does up a button. First stage 23
11. Diagram showing how a woman does up a button. Second stage 23
12. The buttons on the back of a policeman’s great-coat 26
13. The buttons that close the slit up the back of an ulster 27
14. A back view of a seventeenth-century coat showing the buttons and buttonholes 28
15. The tab and buttons on the back of a soldier’s great-coat which make a temporary waist 29
16. The buttons and tab on a tramway driver’s coat 31
17. An eighteenth-century coat with side buttons and tab