Buckles [ Clothing & Fashion ]
… or ‘pinchbeck’, a cheap metal compound with a golden colour. 4 . Iris Brooke, A History of English Footwear (St Giles: London, 1945), p. 70. It was of course sensible to wear cheaper buckles: since they were worn on the feet, they could … quartered shoes and large buckles’. 6 5 . Vivienne Becker, Fabulous Fakes: The History of Fantasy and Fashion Jewellery (London: Grafton, 1988), p. 32. 6 . Mary Thale, The Autobiography of Francis Place (Cambridge: CUP, 1972), p. 77. This … William to Prince George, 10 March 1778, in A. Aspinall (ed.), The Correspondence of George Prince of Wales 1770-1812 (London: Cassell, 1968), vol. 1, p. 268. The correspondence of the Prince of Wales shows that he often sent buckles as …
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