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 341
321 THE TOILETTE IN ITALY. they confine their hair in a net of crimson, scarlet, … the hair behind tied with a riband. “ A custom here prevails,” says Lady Millar, “ of wearing no rouge, and increasing the native paleness of the face by lightly wiping a white powder over the face.” Mrs. Piozzi gives the fol¬ lowing account of their morn¬ ing dress in her time : “ It consists…
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