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Show RIDICULOUS FAD OF FASHION Description of Head-Dresra Worn by Women Soma Centuries Ago Appears Ap-pears Almost Incredible. i Fashion plays constant pranks with a woman's hair. Addison says in the Spectator ef 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 fall above 30 degrees." In the reign of Henry VI, ladles wore horns, having on each side ears so large that when they would pass through the door of a room it was necessary to turn sideways and stoop. It was Judged necessary to enlarge en-large the doors of the Chateau de VIncennea. The correct angle for the hair was 45 from perpendicular, which entsiled grent strain upon the hair growing from the forehead. Little thought of what w call cleanliness or even decency was present at the iuilrdressiug of that d-y. Not only was the hair left untouched for a most revoltingly long time, but materials were used in the dressing of the hair and making the rolls (as Anna Green Winslow related), which were most Incredible. The Boston Gazette of May, 1771, tells of a young woman driving In Boston streets who was thrown from her carriage and her high tower partly torn off. It proved to be Btuffed with yarn, tow, wool, curled hair, and even hay. |