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The art of beauty (1883)

Haweis, Mary Eliza Joy, 1852-1898 · London : Chatto & Windus · leaf 160

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a capcould be made of rich materials, and trimmed with jewelsand goldsmiths work, the mania of every woman for out-doing her sisters in profusion and size, rapidly spread,and the caps soon ceased to be anything but ludicrous. The stiff close caul, curiously enriched but (from theentire concealment… … Fig. 64.—Lady early in the 15th century.

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