Haweis, Mary Eliza Joy, 1852-1898 · London : Chatto & Windus · leaf 173
he aesthetic element had a chance. We seein Vandycks and Lelys pictures how graceful the fashiongrew; indeed, the easy splendour of the whole costume 152 BEAUTY AND HEAD-DRESSES. of Charles II.s time has never been surpassed. But inhead-dresses there was nothing very distinctive worn,rather a… … Fig. 79.—The Commode, 1680. desire. It is painful to look on that picture, and then onthis ! In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries manymonstrosities arose on the head, which we cannot wish torevive—exaggerations of styles pretty in themselves—enormous caps, and the thing called, perhaps in…
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