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vowed not to change her linen until her armies had: taken the town of Ostend. The seige lasted more ^than three years. And for more than a century after, fashionable men and women dressed in yellow-gray, (fobbed “Isabella color.” -
During the Middle Ages, longtoed shoes denoted Wealth and dignity. The style has Ibeen blamed by some on a Frenchnian who reportedly invented it toi hide the huge bunions on tu teet.1 About the year 1800, I ord Spencer set oiit to expose tht capricious fashion world. He is said to have made a bet that he: could launch a meaningless fashion that would become popular in six months. Where upon he cut off hijs coattails with a pair of shears arid went out for a walk. j
In tWo weeks, all London had adopted the style, imd the spencer jacket was bom. .
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