BELLE OF THE VILLAGE. A pretty French peasant's dress with striped short skirt, bibbed apron, kerchief, high muslin cap, and dainty flowers on cap and apron. Blue, white, and red, suitable colours.
BEPPA (La Bonne Aventure). Short pink skirt, made with three black flounces headed by network of black velvet; close fitting high bodice pointed at the waist, and coming on the shoulders; senorita jacket with gold epaulettes trimmed with gold ball fringe. Bandoline carried in hand. Hair dressed with high comb and red roses. Stockings pink; shoes black, with high heels.
BERENGARIA OF NAVARRE (Wife of Richard I. 1189-1199). Satin skirt, the front embroidered with the arms of England, bordered with ermine; long cuirass bodice, jewelled and embroidered stomacher, top and edge of cuirass outlined with ermine; sleeves tight to wrist; regal velvet mantle bordered with ermine from shoulders. Fair hair loose and flowing; gauze gold-edged veil; royal crown. A loose bodice is more historically correct, but is seldom worn. The robe may be made of fawn silk, long and plain. The fulness put in at the neck, and falling straight to the feet, without much extra width in the skirt, and fastened at the back, embroidered all over with a diapered pattern, or waving crossed lines in dull gold-coloured silk. A collar of gold round the throat, jewelled with pearls, and a girdle of the same about the waist. The sleeves cut rather tight to half-way below the elbow, then hanging in very long points. From the shoulders a royal mantle of tawny red plush or velvet, lined with fawn satin; shoes of plush or velvet of the same colour as the mantle. Gold circlet on head, and the hair flowing free.
BERGÈRE. (See Shepherdess.)
BERNE, BERNESE PEASANT OF. (See Swiss, Coloured Illustration, No. XIII.)
BERTRADE (Heloise and Abelard). Valois costume: short skirt, perpendicularly striped with velvet; tunic, and low square bodice, deep hanging sleeves, bordered with velvet, others tight-fitting, of contrasting colour beneath, velvet aumonière at side; white muslin kerchief inside; high stiff pointed Valois head-dress matching tunic, striped with velvet; pendent tulle veil attached. This costume is carried out in
