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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 363

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343 THE TOILETTE IN ANCIENT ROME. Young boys wore an ornament hung round their … on the face, revived the custom, hut it was soon abandoned again. The Romans usually cut their hair very short, and in the later ages they devoted much time to the arrangement of it \ they dyed and perfumed it, and wore false hair and perukes. The men frequently consecrated their beard and hair to…

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