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Gladstone collar: A standing collar with the points pressed to stick out horizontally at the side-fronts, worn with a scarf or ascot; popularized by the British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone. High neck collar: A collar that covers all or most of the neck, popular among women in Edwardian times. HRH collar : Stand-up turned-down collar
A Gladstone bag is a small portmanteau suitcase built over a rigid frame, which can separate into two equal sections. Gladstones are typically made of stiff leather and often belted with lanyards . The bags are named after William Gladstone (1809–1898), the four-time Prime Minister of the United Kingdom .
William Ewart Gladstone FRS FSS (/ ˈ ɡ l æ d s t ən / GLAD-stən; 29 December 1809 – 19 May 1898) was a British statesman, starting as Conservative MP for Newark and later becoming the leader of the Liberal Party.
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The Collar Badge of the Supreme Order of the Most Holy Annunciation, the oldest grand collar still being worn by Prince Vittorio Emanuele of Savoy.. The first of the Orders of Knighthood were the military orders of crusaders who used red, green or black crosses of velvet on their mantles, to distinguish their brotherhoods.
Various forms of livery were used in the Middle Ages to denote attachment to a great person by friends, servants, and political supporters. The collar, usually of precious metal, was the grandest form of these, usually given by the person the livery denoted to his closest or most important associates, but should not, in the early period, be seen as separate from the wider phenomenon of livery ...
Gladstone Gander, a Disney character, cousin of Donald Duck; Joey Gladstone, one of the main characters on TV series Full House; Mr. Gladstone, a pseudonym taken by character Benjamin Braddock in the film The Graduate (1967) William Gladstone, a character in Jonathan Stroud's Bartimaeus series, loosely based on William Ewart Gladstone
A ruff from the early 17th century: detail from The Regentesses of St Elizabeth Hospital, Haarlem, by Verspronck A ruff from the 1620s. A ruff is an item of clothing worn in Western, Central and Northern Europe, as well as Spanish America, from the mid-16th century to the mid-17th century.