Costumes of French peasant women and maid, 16th century. Peasant of Anjou in printed skirt with distaff 1, peasant woman in apron and high collar 2, chambermaid of Saumur 3, 1584. France, 16th century. Paysannes, chambriere de Saumur, XVIe siecle. Taken from Gaignieres collection of manuscripts, Bibliotheque de Rouen. Chromolithograph by Ferdinand Sere and Auguste Racinet from Charles Louandre’s Les Arts Somptuaires, The Sumptuary Arts, Hangard-Mauge, Paris, 1858.

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