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Show RIDICULOUS FAD OF FASHION Description of Had-Dre3s Worn by Women Soma Centuries Ago Appears Ap-pears Almost Incredible. Fashion plnys constant prnnks with a woman's, hair. Addison 6ays in the Spectator of 1718: "There is not so variable a thing In nature as a lady's head-dress; within my memory I. have known It to rise and fnll above 30 degrees." In the reign of Henry VI, ladles wore horns, having on each side ears so large that when they would pnss through the door of a room It wns necessary to turn sideways and etoop. It was judged nacessnry to enlarge en-large the doors of the Chateau de Vincennes. The correct angle for the hair was 45 from perpendicular, which eutalled great strain upon the hair growing from the forehead. Little thought of what we call cleanliness or even decency was present at the fuilrdressing of that day. Not only was the hair left untouched for a most revoltlngly long time, but materials were used in the dressing of the hnir and making the rolls (as Anna Green Wlnslow related), which were most Incredible. The Boston Gazette of May, 1771, tells of a young woman driving in Boston streets who wns thrown from her carriage and her high tower partly torn off. It proved to be stuffed with yarn, tow, wool, curled hair, and even hay. |