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  • Once they are finished for a change I am returning to the Peninsula where I have a regiment of British light dragoons waiting with their splendid tarleton helmets.

    Painting Plans for 2009 Der Alte Fritz 2009

  • I wasn't going to pick this up, but in the regular Marvel Universe, George tarleton is better known as...

    Archive 2006-09-01 Brian Hughes 2006

  • I wasn't going to pick this up, but in the regular Marvel Universe, George tarleton is better known as...

    Ultimate MODOK? Brian Hughes 2006

  • Costume consists of a loose, white robe, worn with but few skirts, the sleeves very short, the waist cut low at the neck, the skirt long enough to trail on the platform; the whole covered with white tarleton muslin.

    Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants James H. Head

  • Costume consists of a loose white dress, over which is worn a robe of white tarleton muslin; these should be cut quite low in the neck, and long at the bottom; sleeves long, and fitting tight to the arms; a wide mantle of tarleton muslin worn across the breast, and allowed to trail with the dress at the side.

    Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants James H. Head

  • Here Mlle. Zita, beautiful in pink tarleton, -- only her skirt had been mislaid at the last moment and she had been compelled to substitute the

    Betty Wales, Sophomore Margaret Warde

  • Costume consists of a pure white dress, cut low at the neck, short sleeves; waist and bottom of sleeves trimmed with wide lace and silver spangles; a scarf of white tarleton muslin draped across the breast; the waist encircled with a satin sash, and the head crowned with a wreath of pearls, in the front of which place a small gold sun.

    Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants James H. Head

  • It must have a cap and base, and be covered with white cloth, over which fasten white tarleton muslin.

    Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants James H. Head

  • Her costume consists of a loose white robe, cut high in the neck; a mantle of white tarleton muslin is draped about the shoulders, and fastened in front with a gilt cross; the hair is arranged in bands, falling low in the neck, and encircled with a small wreath of silver leaves or white flowers.

    Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants James H. Head

  • They should all be costumed in long white robes, that will trail eight inches, the waist cut quite low at the top, the sleeves five inches long; a wide scarf of tarleton muslin draped across the breast, tied at the side, and allowed to trail with the dress; hair confined at the back of the head, and left to fall over the shoulders; the head encircled with a wreath of myrtle and white flowers.

    Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants James H. Head

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