Haweis, Mary Eliza Joy, 1852-1898 · London : Chatto & Windus · leaf 157
from the main garment,but was an indispensable part of the dress, females ofall ranks being seldom or never seen without it, and even i^6 BEAUTY AND HEAD-DRESSES. royal ladies wearing it over their crowns, suggestive ofplacing the woman above the queen. It was a verygraceful head-dress, especially… … Fig. 58.—Anglo-Saxon lady. Fig. 59.—Alfgyfe, Canutes queen. But this was too good to last, and it is too good to hopeto revive. The Normans brought in the fashion of long plaits ofhair, reaching to the hips, and sometimes bound withribbons, or encased in silk of various colours (figs. 16,18)—a…
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