Chats on Costume
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The discussion suggests three purposes for costume: decency, comfort and protection, and beauty and adornment. The text makes the first purpose conditional on accepting the Mosaic account, quoting the making of fig-leaf aprons and coats of skins. The account describes the Veddas of Ceylon making girdles of leaves.
The discussion of hoop petticoats refers to an adventure in a country church in Cornwall related by Addison in the Spectator. The account describes a variation of the top-boot as soft leather hose or buskins drawn to mid-thigh, with the edge folded over and slashed. The boot discussion describes the Wellington boot as practically identical with the boot worn by the soldier from whom the name comes.
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- G. Woolliscroft Rhead
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