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Excerpt from A Cyclopaedia of Costume, or Dictionary of Dress, Including Notices of Contemporaneous Fashions on the Continent, Vol. 2 of 2: And a General Chronological History of the Costumes of the Principal Countries of Europe, From the Commencement of the Christian Era to the Accession of George the Third; A General History of Costume in Europe
All I propose to attempt in entering on so vast and really inexhaustible a subject is to show how few, after all, have been the Important alterations in the apparel and arms of mankind during the period of which we possess any reliable information; and that as History is said to repeat itself.
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