English Costume

By Calthrop, Dion Clayton

Book Id: WPLBN0002952979
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File Size: 250.97 MB
Reproduction Date: 2011

Title:	English Costume
Author:	Calthrop, Dion Clayton
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Non-fiction, History
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, English Costume
Historic Publication Date:	1906
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Clayton Calthrop, B. D. (1906). English Costume. Retrieved from http://www.self.gutenberg.org/

Description
The world, if we choose to see it so, is a complicated picture of people dressing and undressing. The history of the world is composed of the chat of a little band of tailors seated cross-legged on their boards; they gossip across the centuries, feeling, as they should, very busy and important. As you will see, I have devoted myself entirely to civil costume—that is, the clothes a man or a woman would wear from choice, and not by reason of an appointment to some ecclesiastical post, or to a military calling, or to the Bar, or the Bench. Such clothes are but symbols of their trades and professions, and have been dealt with by persons who specialize in those professions. (Summary excerpted from Introduction.)

Summary
Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

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History