Excerpt from British Costume: A Complete History of the Dress of the Inhabitants of the British Islands The taste for a correct conception of and habits of our ancestors has of late yea diffused itself throughout Europe. The historian, the poet, the novelist, the pdnter, and the actor, have discovered in attention to costume a new of information and a fresh source of effect study, embellished by anecdote, soon becomes and careless reader; and at the same time sheds light upon manners and rectifies dates, the various events and eras in the most natu vivid colours indelibly on the memory. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.