Calthrop, Dion Clayton, 1878-1937 · London, A. and C. Black · leaf 74
hallbe thick and long.It is easy to see how this came about. The hair,for convenience, had always been plaited in twoplaits and coiled round the head, where it lay con-cealed by the wimple. One day some fine ladydecides to discard her close and uncomfortablehead-covering. She lets her plaits hang… … 26 ENGLISH COSTUME and long; enormous demand for artificial hair;failure of the supply to meet the ever-increasingdemand; invention of silken cases filled with asubstitute for hair, these cases attached to the endof the plaits to elongate them—in this manner domany fashions arrive and flourish,…
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