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Towards the close of the 18th dynasty, under the heretic king Akhenaten, the inner skirt was worn wider and longer, whilst the upper one was looped up in puffs, so as to show the under one below it

1725-1730 Travelling cloaks for men were long and circular in shape, in fact they differed little from the chlamys of the Greeks (except that this was oblong), or the cloaks worn by Spanish peasants to this day

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Mozarts Magic Flute then greeted us in the dinner tent, which had a maze of long green silk-draped tables with silver candelabras and a peacock feather on each plate

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