Wilton, Mary Margaret Stanley Egerton: The Book of costume or, Annals of fashion: from the earliest period to the present time (London: Henry Colburn, Publisher, 1847)

THE TOILETTE IN ALBANIA.


CHAPTER XXXVIII.

HO has not read of
“ The wild Albanian kirtled to
his knee,
With shawl-girt head, and
ornamented gun,
And gold embroider’d gar-
ments fair to see ?”

These brave and hardy people wear a graceful
and a fanciful costume. The better classes have an
outer mantle, made of coarse woollen stuff, bordered
and embroidered with scarlet threads; this mantle,
being long, falls loosely from the shoulders down the
back, and reaches as low as the knees. Two vests
are always worn, and the higher orders even have