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HISTORY OF LACE.

a revers ” are trimmed in the same manner, and the fashion evenextends to the tops of the boots.

Of these lace-trimmed boots, the favourite, Cinq-Mars, leftthree hundred pairs at his death (1(5-12). From his portrait, afterLenain, which hangs in the National Callery of Versailles, we giveone of these boots (Fig. 58), and his rich collerette or fallingcollar of Italian point (Fig. 59).

The garters, now worn like a scarf round the knee, have theends adorned with point.

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Oinq-Mars. After his portrait by tannin. Musee Natlomile, Versailles.

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A large rosette of lace completes the costume of the epoch

(Fig. 60).

Gold lace shared the favour of the thread fabric on gloves, 33garters, and shoes. 34

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34 “ 1019. Deux puires do rozes ii soidliers gnrnies de dentelle d’or.”— Inr. deMadame Seenr du Hoi (Henrietta Maria). Arch. Nat.