A Woman of the Time of Henry VI (1422 - 1461) Her head-dress is very high, and over it is a coloured and jagged silk wimple, a new innovation, being a change from the centuries of white linen wimples. Her waist is high, after a long period of low waists. from the book ' English costume ' by Dion Clayton Calthrop, 1878-1937 Publication date 1907 Publisher London, A. & C. Black

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Location: England
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