British costume during XIX centuries (civil and ecclesiastical) (1910)
Ashdown, Charles H., Mrs · London and Edinburgh : T. C. & e. c. Jack · leaf 259
Fig. 202.—Head-dresses, temp. Henry VI. 160 BRITISH COSTUME certainly be said in favour of the turban—it was the leastaggressive of the many head-dresses which sprang intoexistence at this period. That it was a favourite is shownby its persistence. For example, the annexed figure(Fig. 203)… … Fig. 203.—Card party, early sixteenth century, showing persistenceof turban head-dress. came into fashion during this extraordinary reign, thehorned variety was par excellence undoubtedly the mostgrotesque and bizarre. It neither fitted the head noradorned it—it was merely an uncouth excrescence.…
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