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... material , and I trust have not only found fault in many instances with past and present fashions , but have also enforced and provided the remedy . The illustrations of the ancient fashions are all taken from the highest authorities ...
... material , and I trust have not only found fault in many instances with past and present fashions , but have also enforced and provided the remedy . The illustrations of the ancient fashions are all taken from the highest authorities ...
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... materials , it is in no wise difficult to carry our history of shoemaking back to the earliest times , and even to look upon the shoemaker at his work , in the early days of Thothmes the third , who ascended the throne of Egypt ...
... materials , it is in no wise difficult to carry our history of shoemaking back to the earliest times , and even to look upon the shoemaker at his work , in the early days of Thothmes the third , who ascended the throne of Egypt ...
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... materials ; sometimes of leather , and were frequently lined within with cloth , on which the figure of a captive was painted ; that humiliating position being thought suitable to the enemies of their country , whom they hated and ...
... materials ; sometimes of leather , and were frequently lined within with cloth , on which the figure of a captive was painted ; that humiliating position being thought suitable to the enemies of their country , whom they hated and ...
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... material : shoes with wooden soles were at this time worn by per- sons of the most exalted rank ; thus , the shoes of Bernard , king of Italy the grandson of Charle- magne , are thus described by an Italian writer , as they were found ...
... material : shoes with wooden soles were at this time worn by per- sons of the most exalted rank ; thus , the shoes of Bernard , king of Italy the grandson of Charle- magne , are thus described by an Italian writer , as they were found ...
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... materials of which they were composed are not particularized by ancient writers , we may rea- sonably suppose them to have been made of leath- er ; at least it is certain that about this time , a sort of leathern boots , called bazans ...
... materials of which they were composed are not particularized by ancient writers , we may rea- sonably suppose them to have been made of leath- er ; at least it is certain that about this time , a sort of leathern boots , called bazans ...
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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