The book of costume: or, Annals of fashion, from the earliest period to the present time (1846)
Wilton, Mary Margaret Stanley Egerton, Countess of, 1801-1858 · London, H. Colburn · leaf 272
curls, as wearing a hat so very small as to be kept with diffi¬ culty on the head ; an immense cravat, containing at least two yards of muslin, a short coat or jacket, scarcely reaching to the hips, and a pair of pantaloons of immense width, which gave him the appearance al¬ most of a woman. The… … dress, at least for young unmarried women, consisted of a crop adorned with a wreath of flowers. Madame Junot gives the following account of her trousseau, and the dress that was the fashion for a bride in 1800: — D’une immense corbeille, ou plutot une malle en gros de Naples rose brodee en…
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