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The art of beauty (1883)

Haweis, Mary Eliza Joy, 1852-1898 · London : Chatto & Windus · leaf 172

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g. 26, p. 62). Itwas a fashion full of elegance and simplicity save for afew vagaries, in spite of Puritan influence. The vulgar HEAD-DRESSES ANCIENT AND MODERN. 151 vulgarised it v/ith wired-out locks, as in fig. 63 (p. 138).Later, the Puritans had it all their own way, and theirrighteous (?)… … Fig. 77.—Mary Stuarts cap. Fig. 78.—Lady of rank, 1604. century, we find women wearing their hair loose, andcovered by a long couvrechef with or without a hood be-neath it, descending in easy graceful folds almost to thefeet. Charles II. obliterated the Puritan taste to a greatextent, and the…

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