![]() ![]() There is a gleam of truth in the representation, and you may see the real Jane Shore in a high steeple head-dress, with a thin veil thrown over it, with a frontlet or little loop of black velvet over her forehead in a high-waisted dress, open in a V shape from shoulder to waist, the opening laced over the square-cut under-gown, the upper gown having a collar of fur or silk, a long train, broad cuffs, perhaps 7 inches long from the base of her fingers, with a broad, coloured band about her waist, a broader trimming of the same colour round the hem of her shirt, and in long peaked shoes. ![]() The waists of these ladies are apparently under their bosoms their feet seem to be an ell long.Īn assembly hour is, after the manner of Lydgate's poem, a dream of delicious faces surmounted by minarets, towers, horns, excrescences of every shape - enormous, fat, heart-shaped erections, covered with rich, falling drapery, or snow-white linen, or gold tissue gold-wire boxes sewn with pearls and blazing with colours round, flat-topped caps, from under which girls' hair escapes in a river of colour crown shapes, circular shapes, mitre shapes, turbans, and shovel-shaped linen erections, wired into place.Īnd the moralists, among whom Heaven forbid that I should be found, painted lurid pictures for you of hell and purgatory, in which such head-dresses turned into instruments of torture you lifted your long-fingered, medieval hand and shook the finger with the toad-stone upon it, as if to dispel the poison of their words. Calthrop writes:- The heads of these ladies are carried very erect, as are all heads bearing weights.
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