Haweis, Mary Eliza Joy, 1852-1898 · London : Chatto & Windus · leaf 177
h absurdextremes that ships, chariots, andhorses, and other devices in blackpaper, began to disfigure the femalevisage, and at last the whole facewas bespattered with vulgar shapes,having no meaning, unless some-times a political one, and being ofno value to beauty whatever, andthen the degraded… … Fig. 80.—Patches, 1650. HAIR-POWDER AND PATCHES. 157 in which it is easy to see how many patches defeat theaim of one. Some are boat-shaped, some circular, oneon the neck being as big as a black beetle, and littleones nestle close to the large ones as if for a bettersimulation of disease! It is…
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