1300–1400 in European fashion this period, the most dignified figures, like King Charles in the illustration, continue to wear long overgowns—although as the Royal Chamberlain, de Vaudetar was himself a person of very high rank. This abandonment of the gown to emphasise a tight top over the torso, with breeches or trousers below, was to become the distinctive feature of European men's fashion for centuries to come. Men had carried purses up to this time because tunics did not provide pockets. The funeral effigy and "achievements" of Edward, the Black Prince in Canterbury Cathedral, who died in 1376, show the military version of the
He Who Shrank He Who Shrank "He Who Shrank" by Henry Hasse is a science fiction novelette printed as the featured story in the August 1936 issue of "Amazing Stories" magazine (illustrated on the cover and in interior page by Leo Morey) about a man who is forever shrinking through worlds nested within a universe with apparently endless levels of scale. It was reprinted in the 1946 collection "Adventures in Time and Space", edited by Raymond J. Healy and J. Francis McComas, and in Isaac Asimov's anthology of 1930s science fiction "Before the Golden Age". A world-celebrated professor reveals to his assistant, the