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English Costume

by Dion Clayton CALTHROP (1878 - 1937)

08 - Henry The Third

The world, if we choose to see it so, is a complicated picture of people dressing and undressing. The history of the world is composed of the chat of a little band of tailors seated cross-legged on their boards; they gossip across the centuries, feeling, as they should, very busy and important. As you will see, I have devoted myself entirely to civil costume—that is, the clothes a man or a woman would wear from choice, and not by reason of an appointment to some ecclesiastical post, or to a military calling, or to the Bar, or the Bench. Such clothes are but symbols of their trades and professions, and have been dealt with by persons who specialize in those professions. (Summary excerpted from Introduction.)

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Listen next episodes of English Costume:
09 - The Country Folk , 10 - Edward The First , 11 - Edward The Second , 12 - Edward The Third , 13 - Richard The Second , 14 - The End of the Fourteenth Century , 15 - Henry The Fourth , 16 - Henry The Fifth , 17 - Henry The Sixth , 18 - Edward The Fourth , 19 - Edward The Fifth, Richard The Third , 20 - Henry The Seventh , 21 - Henry The Eighth , 22 - Edward The Sixth , 23 - Mary , 24 - Elizabeth , 25 - Shakespeare and Clothes , 26 - James The First , 27 - Charles The First , 28 - The Cromwells , 29 - Charles The Second , 30 - Pepys and Clothes , 31 - James The Second , 32 - William and Mary , 33 - Queen Anne , 34 - George The First , 35 - George The Second , 36 - George The Third , 37 - George The Fourth , 38 - Powder and Patches , 39 - Beau Brummell and Clothes