In the walking costume, however, the sari, or outside garment, is passed round the shoulders and over the top of the head, so that the mathabana is unobserved, and the tout ensemble is then very graceful.
Indian women who wear the most brilliant costumes. It is against the custom of the higher castes to be photographed at all, and none are more so than Hindus.
Very many members of this caste become ascetics, and wander from town to town, accepting such alms as may be given them, but asking nothing.
Costume of a Russian Woman of the 18th Century. Costumes historiques par Achille Devéria
Noblewoman from Liege to the Walloon region of Belgium, in the 15th Century. Renaissance period costume.
Dame Française de la suite de Marie Stuart. Costumes historiques de ville ou de théatre et travestissements.
Nobel woman with Coiffure à la Hurluberlus at the court of Louis XIV.
Tudor costume from the time of Queen Elizabeth I’s reign (1558–1603). Source: Costumes historiques de ville ou de théatre et travestissements. Author: Achille Devéria and José Domínguez Bécquer. Publisher Paris:… Read More
France Fin de siècle fashion. Haute couture costume by Jeanne Paquin 1913.
French rider costume. Rococo fashion period. Costumes historiques par Achille Devéria
