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 381
th a piece of linen, from under which the hair hangs in long plaits. Many add to this another long piece of linen, which, hanging on each side of the face, and reaching down to the knees, makes them look as if they were doing penance in a white sheet. The costume of the higher classes is very… … horseback, are of sable, or of the skins of tigers or leopards. Some of the Polish nobles have as many as
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