Fashion in Paris; the various phases of feminine taste and aesthetics from 1797 to 1897 (1898)
Uzanne, Octave, 1852-1931, Loyd, Mary Sophia Hely-Hutchinson, 1853-1936, Courboin, François, 1865-1926 · London, W. Heinemann · leaf 150
hair, were all distinctiveattributes of feminine costume, towards the middle of the year1814. No jewels were to be seen, save rings of an emblematicpattern, which earned them swift popularity—a golden cable,bearing three jleurs de lis, also in gold, and with the following mottoin white enamelled… … bonnets a VAnglaise were produced. Heavv arid clumsy head-piecesthey were, crimped and goffered and plaited—as ugly as they wellcould be. Then there were Russian caps, wide in the headand tiny in the peak ; there were helmets covered withvarious stuffs, and adorned with tufts of white cocks…
Fashion · Costume
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