The well-dressed woman: a study in the practical application to dress of the laws of health, art, and morals (1893)
Ecob, Helen Gilbert · New York, Fowler & Wells co. · leaf 127
COURTOF JJUEEN CATHERINE DE MEDfcf Fig. 39. the eighteenth century were the powdered hair andthe patch-fashion. Ladies carried bits of court-plaster in patch-boxes and stopped even in thestreet to glance at the mirror in the lid of thepatch-box and replace any which might havefallen. As the climax… … Fig. 40.—Henry III. and wheel frizzled, powdered, in a gold-lace coat,pumps, and white silk stockings. (Carlyle.) The THE PEDIGREE OF THE CORSET. 105 Medici corset was still worn. Eousseau said of thetight dress of this period : I cannot but think thatthis abuse, pushed in England to an…
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