Linens

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Title

Linens

Subject

Eugene Onegin: "Reading Fashion"

Description

Men's linens in XIX century Russia.

Creator

Elizabeth LaFave

Source

Text: Alexander Pushkin; Eugene Onegin
Image: Reigning Men: Fashion in Menswear

Publisher

Text: Oxford's World Classics
Image: Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Text

«Вбегает

К нему слуга француз Гильо,

Халат и туфли предлагает

И подаёт ему бельё» (6, XXV, 144).


“His French valet, Guillot, runs in—

With slippers and a dressing jacket,

And fresh new linen from the bin” (Chapter 6, Stanza 25, Page 144). 

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Citation

Elizabeth LaFave, “Linens,” Collections @ ECU, accessed December 22, 2024, http://collections.ecu.edu/items/show/592.

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