British costume during XIX centuries (civil and ecclesiastical) (1910)
Ashdown, Charles H., Mrs · London and Edinburgh : T. C. & e. c. Jack · leaf 428
r example, in Fig. 365 a lady is representedwith a folding bone fan, a looking-glass attached to hergirdle, a pomander in the form of a ball with tassels hang-ing from it, containing perfume (much in use at that timeas a preventative against the plague and other infection);and also a case, probably… … Fig. 365.—Fan, &c, temp.James I. 274 BRITISH COSTUME even in the chase. The few ladies who dared to appear inpublic without this disfigurement were termed bare-faced.One lady in particular, the Countess of Bedford, bravedthe court remarks, and, in 1613, Chamberlain wrote thatshe forbears…
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