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This Old Thing? T&C Reviews: Lace
Town & Country US
|September 2025
It's delicate, exquisite, elegant. It may also lead the way to the future.
We have long fixated on her pearls, but we should have been paying more attention to the lace. In 1588, to celebrate England's victory over the Spanish Armada, Elizabeth I was depicted in an allegorical painting swaddled in all her regal splendor. She had pearls in her hair, on her dress, and around her neck—but it's that intricate spray of lace framing the queen's virginal visage that was the true testament to her power.
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