British costume during XIX centuries (civil and ecclesiastical) (1910)
Ashdown, Charles H., Mrs · London and Edinburgh : T. C. & e. c. Jack · leaf 487
lowered; and Iwith pleasure saw the Duchess of D.s fine face ornamentedmore naturally, and with but three feathers instead of seven.Lady S.s head was the most beyond the bounds of propriety,she having so many plates of fruit placed on the top pillar,and her hair being without powder it was not so… … the maximum height of head-dress was attained in 1782, and one example is depicted in Fig. 423. In Fig. 424 is given a calash taken from aprint dated 1780. It was made to work likethe hood of a carriage, being pulled over thehead by a string which was connected to thewhalebone hoops. It was first…
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