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How ladies in waiting dressed?

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It is believed in Elizabethan times they had a standard court costume and all the Ladies-In_waiting would wear this costume. there were variants for different seasons and occasions such as mourning,etc. The cipher(here not a code but a sort of Monogram would be embroidered somewhere on the dress as sort of an identity badge akin to poolice, military use. in the case of Elizabeth I this would have been a styoizee Er-possibly inside a diamond lozenge-indicating female usage. Look up any of the varius magazine articles(back issue) about Elizabethan life inthe national geographic, for example.

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