WOMEN’S HEAD DRESSES.
It is amazing what trouble women take to give a distorted appearance to every portion of their figures except th/ir faces and hands. But their efforts in this direction arc nut by any means original. The fashions seem to go though period'cal phases, something after the style _ of a revolving light, each change following in due order of succession, and reappearing after a given of years. iLong Waists, short waists, long skirts, short skirts, narrow Skirts, wi 1c skirts, great rolls of hair, snug litt’e knots, sweet flowing natural curls, or sober braids follow in duo order. Wo dare say mapy young ladies imagine such extra weight of hair, or appearance of hair, which they now load themselves with was never came lby women before. We should certainly be glad to think it would never be carried again, but the present fashion is only a reproduction of the style a century ago. ’1 he Lowlon Moyazme, in a satire on the fashions of 1777, said : Give Chloc a bushel of horse hair and wool, Of paste and pomatum a pound, Ten yards of gay ribbon to deck her sweet skull, And gauze to encompass it round. Of all tbe bright colors the rainbow displays, Be those ribbons that hang on the head ; Be her flounces adapted to make the folks gaze, And about the whole work be they spread ; Let her flaps fly behind for a yard at the least, Let her curls meet just under her chin ; Let those curls be supported to keep up the jest, With an hundred instead of one pin.
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Evening Star, Issue 2934, 15 July 1872, Page 3
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268WOMEN’S HEAD DRESSES. Evening Star, Issue 2934, 15 July 1872, Page 3
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