Dress of the reign of King Henry V and early Henry VI, 1413~1430.

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Dress of the reign of King Henry V and early Henry VI, 1413~1430. She wears an ermine-trimmed dress with low-cut collar showing the shoulders, and an elaborate headdress covering the hair with veils. Based on an effigy of Lady Vernon, Tong Church, Shropshire, a tapestry in St. Mary’s Hall, Coventry, Royal and Harleian manuscripts, Froissart, Montfaucon. Handcoloured lithograph from "Costumes of British Ladies from the Time of William the First to the Reign of Queen Victoria,” London, Dickinson & Son, 1840. 48 mounted plates of women's fashion from 1066 to 1840 based on effigies, manuscripts, portraits, prints and literary descriptions.

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