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“What a fine sight an old working man makes, in his patched bombazine suit with his bald head,” Vincent wrote.

They emerge from their time, which is why Jacobeans saw ghosts wearing pale shrouds and Victorians saw them draped in black bombazine.

The Ogilvie daughters, Colette and Jeannine, swept into the room, dressed in matching pink and yellow bombazine gowns, wearing their curled hair piled on top of their heads.

The outfit also includes a black silk, taffeta and bombazine bodice, undergarments and a pair of small black boots.

Black bombazine has been much used for mourning garments.