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Show MUFFS WORN FOR AGES. Evolution of Dress Article Through Centuries Shows Its Origin. In many of the portraits or the sixteenth six-teenth century one ortcn sees a strip of rich boft tnr wound around the I wrist of a nohlo damo. This was used 'to cover tho neck or fulllll tho function func-tion or a muff, nnd to It was often attached at-tached a small animal's head or a skull, cunningly Tv-rought In metal and adorned with tirecioiis stones. Ar. was the enso with so many arti cles of dress, the muff was first the excluslvo property of the nobility, and was carried by the commonest women of Venice, as well ns by the women of tho highest rank. Tho first Venetian muffs wero small, made of a Elnglo piece of velvet, bro-cado bro-cado or silk, lined wjth fur, the opening open-ing enriched with gold or silver buttons but-tons set with precious stones. By 1002 the muff seems to havo been recognized as tho necessary ndjunct of the wardrobe of a woman of fash-Ion. |