A history of English dress from the Saxon period to the present day (1893)
Hill, Georgiana · London : Richard Bentley and Son · leaf 30
th this kind ofpuppets ; and yet more so when, examining thesechildish figures, you read in their faces that theyo-enerally consist of persons from twenty-five toupwards of forty years of age. Some fops of fiftyodd, made the first decays of age remarkable inthem by this dress, which would be… … WIGS UNIVERSALLY WORN. lj of old winter, when everything looks flourishingaround them ? The very breezes blow to refreshthem, and sweep away the load of dust which wouldswelter them if they had not ingeniously preventedit by a cement of orange butter. . . . As to thepowderers of fifty, I must tell…
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