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 470
450 THE TOILETTE IN AFFGHANISTAN. or satin, and the top of gold brocade, or of some … with flowers in silk ; in the west it is often entirely of silk. They wear coloured trou¬ sers, tighter than those of the men, and have a small cap of bright-coloured silk, embroidered with gold thread, which scarcely comes down to the forehead or the ears ; and a large sheet, either plain or…
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