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    IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 109

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    of skirt Denmark of the . dress Another ample portrait and long of , a but lady gathered of that into period a very shows short the The

    waistornamented with what we believe ladies call a basque . neck sort of , is affair quite , bare something , and from between , the head a helmet rises and an a immense foolscap with , nondescri very the hig pt h ,

    middle ception very stiff of of , . and the one , unhappy forehead intensely little ug Royal ly curl ; this brides which also has wear hides strayed their the hair hair out , , ri flowing ght in the ex in

    -. curls under the crownthe sleeves of the dress wide and -hanging , and a long graceful train , ; sometimes we see braids the hair rolle ive d quite

    round the head under a net _, or worn in full . "We gone towards more costum the close e , as of it disp the lays century a French . This fashion is nothing adop less ted than in G modern ermany inal of

    dress the crinoline portrait is singularl , under was Its y the ungraceful oldest wife title of ; Frederick of a brown " guardinfanta velvet "William skirt . _" of , very The Saxony ori short g . , The and

    fur with stretched collar tight almost standing fitting * ti sleeves g up ht round over , and an the red enormous neck cuffs , whi at hoop the ch , wrists is a blue left ; bare lete velvet an , immense is jacket sup few

    face gold posed and orn to aments twisted render decorate into the a attractions roll the on hair the , of which top this of is the toilette strained head comp . Will back . from any A lad the y

    be So tern much / pied to for adop the t dress this costume itself . for With her regard next fancy to the ball materials ? of

    for which those the great it trousseau was merchant composed of a princess houses , they were , which in the magnificent , Thousand established enoug and in One h different to Ni have ghts towns served . To ,

    supp and Venice lied all sent the courts their of Germany -fabrics , the looms with of Florence embroidery , Milan , and _,, stuffs stiff with woven gold , with . . a We gorgeous read of the of silver thickest embroidered , gay silkand the upon woof silver made , of of

    one of the precious warp metals ; of crimson velvet , flowered with gold , Master and cloths Thomas of gold and i of , silver Nuremberg . A list for of tlie the wardrob requisites e of ordered the Princess from

    burg Anna black , , in crim on 1594 her son , marriage is and Lap before with us . the It ate includes Ele colors ctor three sixteen John Si ieces p g ieces ismund of flowered of p of lain Branden velvet velvet - , ,

    green eighty , . ells Fifty of different , ells pomegran of damask colored s satins striped , gold , with , white p gold , orange and silver ermin , violet , three , and and

    hundred sable , for of trimming gold and ; five silver hundred raised ells work of gold ; costl and y silver furs , lace , etc e ., etcf This mercer ' s bill of the sixteenth century nearltakes away our

    breath to read ; would the Princess Anna ever want y any more fine clothes all her life long we wonder ? Would she be condemned to

    in wear sions the her at hot heavy German rate velvets . summers The and hih thick ? mi Assuredl htinesses satins , y with she of those would their days fur ; on trimmings stat paid e _occa little _? , any

    regard to so vulgar a thing * g as a change g in the temx _^ erature ; the sun

    In The Sixteenth Century. 109

    IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY . 109

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1860, page 109, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041860/page/37/