The Evolution of Fashion

102 Pages·2016·6.31 MB·English

by  Gardiner Florence.

Hhe Sbolution of ifashion
BY
FLORENCE MARY GARDINER
Author of ^'"Furnishings and Fittings for Every Home" ^^ About Gipsies,"
SIR ROBERT BRUCE COTTON.
THE COTTON PRESS, Granvii^le House, Arundel Street, VV-C-

TO
FRANCES EVELYN,
Countess of Warwick,
whose enthusiastic and kindly interest in all movements
calculated to benefit women is unsurpassed,
This Volume,
by special permission, is respectfully dedicated,
BY
THE AUTHOR.
in the year of
Her Majesty Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee,
1897.

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PREFACE.
T N compiling this volume on Costume (portions of which originally appeared
in the Lndgate Ilhistrated Magazine, under the editorship of Mr. A. J.
Bowden), I desire to acknowledge the valuable assistance I have received from
sources not usually available to the public ; also my indebtedness to the following
authors, from whose works I have quoted :" Mr. Beck, Mr. R. Davey, Mr. E.
Rimmel, Mr. Knight, and the late Mr. J. R. Planchd. I also take this
opportunity of thanking Messrs, Liberty and Co., Messrs. Jay, Messrs. E. R,
Garrould, Messrs. Walery, Mr. Box, and others, who have offered me special
facilities for consulting drawings, engravings, "c., in their possession, many of
which they have courteously allowed me to reproduce, by the aid of Miss
Juh'et Hensman, and other artists.
The book lays no claim to being a technical treatise on a subject which
is practically inexhaustible, but has been written with the intention of bringing
before the general public in a popular manner circumstances which have influenced
in a marked degree the wearing apparel of the British Nation.
FLORENCE MARY GARDINER.
West Kensington, iS^y.
CONTENTS.
PAGE.
CHAPTER.
I. The Dress, b.c. 594" a.d. 1897 3
II. Curious Headgear ^5
III. Gloves 25
IV. Curious Footgear 31
V. Bridal Costume 39
VI. Mourning 5i
VII. Eccentricities of Masculine Costume 61
VIII. A Chat about Children and their Clothing 71
IX. Fancy Costume of Various Periods 79
X. Stage and Floral Costume 89