The Lord Chancellor, head of Britain's judiciary, is tired of wearing a 17th-century costume to work and has asked Parliament if he could, please, wear a suit for everyday and save the knee breeches, silk stockings and buckled shoes for special.
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Aesthetic dress encompasses a range of modes, from the " Japonaise " gowns and Kate Greenaway-inspired children's Liberty & Co . to the velvet jackets and knee breeches of Oscar Wilde's " aesthetic lecturing costume " for his speaking tour of America in 1882.
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Meanwhile, at the foot of the stairs, a strange apparition appears through a closed door : A menacing, raptor-like human figure with huge, hooked nose and chin ( echoing the shape of the crescent moon ), feathered arms, and knee breeches with stockings the Sandman.
