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The art of beauty (1883)

Haweis, Mary Eliza Joy, 1852-1898 · London : Chatto & Windus · leaf 158

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lk of various colours (figs. 16,18)—a pretty fashion, but one that made some additional HEAD-DRESSES ANCIENT AND MODERN. 137 head-dress requisite. With the Plantagenets we havethe first hint of the veil as distinct from the hood, andsoon after appear the strange and varied head-dresseswhich we must… … Fig. 60.—Lady of 14th century. Fig. 61. — Lady of the middle cass. as the fair wearers sacrificed more and more convenience,sense, and propriety in its pursuit. Some of the first of these head-dresses, which weresmall and formed like crowns, or like caps, are verydignified as well as pretty, and…

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