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... fashion in this indispensable article of dress ; also , numerous biographical sketches of individuals , who , having learned the art of shoemaking , have afterward distinguished themselves by their genius , talents , or worth , and ...
... fashion in this indispensable article of dress ; also , numerous biographical sketches of individuals , who , having learned the art of shoemaking , have afterward distinguished themselves by their genius , talents , or worth , and ...
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... fashion , will here have their curiosity gratified , in a history of the varied changes which have taken place in an important article of dress , from the pyramidal ages of ancient Egypt , long ere Greece or Rome occupied a space in ...
... fashion , will here have their curiosity gratified , in a history of the varied changes which have taken place in an important article of dress , from the pyramidal ages of ancient Egypt , long ere Greece or Rome occupied a space in ...
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... fashion capable of adoption by the lower classes , may be well illustrated by fig . 2 , plate II . , which delineates the shoe or sandal worn by the rustics of ancient Rome . It is formed of a skin turned over the foot , and secured by ...
... fashion capable of adoption by the lower classes , may be well illustrated by fig . 2 , plate II . , which delineates the shoe or sandal worn by the rustics of ancient Rome . It is formed of a skin turned over the foot , and secured by ...
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... fashion . No. 2 , is copied from Strutt's " complete view of the dress and habits of the people of England , " plate XXIX . , fig . 16 , and which he obtained from the Harleian MS . , No. 603. It very clearly shows the form of the Saxon ...
... fashion . No. 2 , is copied from Strutt's " complete view of the dress and habits of the people of England , " plate XXIX . , fig . 16 , and which he obtained from the Harleian MS . , No. 603. It very clearly shows the form of the Saxon ...
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... fashion ; but they appear to have been chiefly confined to the clergy . " Among the various innovations , " continues Strutt , " made in dress by the Normans during the twelfth century , none met with more marked and more deserved ...
... fashion ; but they appear to have been chiefly confined to the clergy . " Among the various innovations , " continues Strutt , " made in dress by the Normans during the twelfth century , none met with more marked and more deserved ...
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ancient ancient Egypt ankle appear beautiful became Bloomfield boot or shoe boots and shoes British museum brogue buckles buskin calceus century chopine classes clothes color comfort common copied corns cothurnus covered Crispin decorated dress Drew early Egypt elastic boot England English engraved fashion fastened feet foot French front gentle craft Gideon Lee given gold half-boot heel high shoes HISTORY OF BOOTS inches instep kind of boot knee labor laced ladies London matter NOAH WORCESTER Ocrea ornamented pair of lasts pair of shoes period persons plate reign remarkable Roger Sherman Roman round Samuel Drew sandal says secured sewing Sherman shoemaker shoes worn silk skin slipper sole specimens stitches stockings Suwarrow tannic acid tanning THOMAS HOLCROFT thong thread tion toes trade upper leather Walkden walking wear wearer Wellington Wellington boot wore workman