Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1886 — The Decollete in Days of Old. [ARTICLE]

The Decollete in Days of Old.

All the papers at the present are talking about the decollete dress. The fact is the square-neck toilet of to-day is nothing compared with former fashions. The corsage since 1200 A. D., has been periodically rising and falling. In the fifteenth century Agnes Sorel is said to have worn costly gowns with trains one-third longer than any princess in the kingdom,and her “bosom bare to the waist. ” It was the custom “when Madison was I resident” for the belles to dress with similar freedom.— Memphis Times.