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    English Costume
    English Costume
    English Costume
    Audiobook8 hours

    English Costume

    Written by Dion Clayton Calthrop

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

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    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.)

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014

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