Reception of the Prince at Kandy, Ceylon, 1876. The future King Edward VII meets locals. '...the great Kandyan marvels to behold, and their costume was at once the most singular and gorgeous I have ever beheld. Upon their heads they wore pincushion-shaped hats of about eighteen inches the top were ornaments in a style which, for want of a better name, I should call jackets were made of superbly rich and stiff brocaded silk. These jackets were made to rise and stick sharply out at each shoulder, exactly as I have seen in certain specimens of old armour.
Reception of the Prince at Kandy, Ceylon, 1876. The future King Edward VII meets locals. '...the great Kandyan marvels to behold, and their costume was at once the most singular and gorgeous I have ever beheld. Upon their heads they wore pincushion-shaped hats of about eighteen inches the top were ornaments in a style which, for want of a better name, I should call jackets were made of superbly rich and stiff brocaded silk. These jackets were made to rise and stick sharply out at each shoulder, exactly as I have seen in certain specimens of old lower of masses of muslin the bulge in front were stuck two or three their fingers were rings with an immense amount of jewels'. From "Illustrated London News", 1876.
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