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WlXrERTHUR MUSEUM
LIBRARIES
AVADLEIGH'S
CONSTANTLY ON HAND,
A SPECIALTY.
Misses' and Children's Hats, Trimmed and Untrimmed.
:
Head-Gear,
NTi^uE AND Modern.
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BOSTON
COLEMAN & MAXWELL, Stationers and Printers,
58 AND CO Federal Street.
1879.
Copyright, 1S79.
R. H. WADLEIGH.
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My recent pul)lii-ati()ii on ]Ii'ii<J-f Iniv. , in t (iiir <iii ' Modern . "^yWl be d(>!i\ ( pimI to
all our customers.Sliould there be any wjio do not r.L-ceivc! a, copy, they will do mv a iavor
by making application at the store wjiere thoy will be sup|[)lied. 1 take great i)](>asure in^
presenting the only work exclusively devoted to this subject over ])ul);isliril, Irnsting a perusal of
its pages will be at least interesting, if not insiruclivc. 1 jiave used evi-ry clTort to make it .a
correct description of styles, beginning with lOgypt in the days of the Phar.aohs ( dating ba(;k
nearly six thousand years ) and ending with modern Paris, giving some twenty pages of l)eaut!-
fuUy executed illustrations, and thirty ])ages of descriptive essays and (juotations from
ancient and modern writers.
We
solicit a continuance of your patronage this coming season,
and feel confident that with a rich and varied assortinent of millinery goods and perfect
artists we shall be able to sustain our UKjtto "CORRECT STYLES ''''
Respectfully yoxxrs.
r.h.vvadleigh.
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INTRODUCTION.
their correctness.
I remain, respectfully,
R. H. WADLEIGH.
Old Priam.
the most civilized, will but prove the truth of the as-
sertion.
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Some were set with jewels, and were very heavy and of
great value. In the time of Virgil cauls were much
worn :
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Her head with ringlets of her hair is crowned,
The net that held them and the wreath that crowned.
Homer.
Females. Musicians from Theban Tombs. In the reign of Menes, 3893 years B.C.
top, and the body was placed over the forehead, while the
neck and beak hung down ; and the former, being fastened
motion.
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141 1 B.C.
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whatever of head-dress.
Her beauteous breast she beat and rent her flowing hair.
bulus.
Four hundred and eighty years B.C., hats were not worn
Athens.
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over the neck and back in heavy folds, covered the whole
page illustrate.
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Of Helen, he says :
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O'er her fair face a snowy veil she threw,
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1066, and even at this date not any style existed, although
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As Shakspeare said :
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Report of fashions in proud Italy,
to imitate.
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In France, during the reign of Charles VIII., in 1483,
still wore the favorite towering cap that had been fashion-
able for two hundred years before her time, with the veil
resolution.
French.
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1300
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Germany, A.D. 1450.
so
to their beauty.
passer-by.
Fig. 50.
Such is life.
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nated. Figs. 52, '53, and 54 are dress caps worn by the
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spring designs.
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and bonnets.
For a long period the world has acknowledged the
French to be leaders of fashion. We look to Madame
Virot, and other leading modistes of Paris, from season
to season, for what might be termed first ideas, but still in
mourning :
—
White is the emblem of purity ; celestial blue indicates
dead leaf) exhibits death as the end of hope, and man fall-
of happiness."
— :
FINALE. ^
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ing for the great work, her toilette, is the shape of her
head, which she must also compare with her stature. The
art of dressing the head and the art of fashion are connected
enemy of severity.
new and startling falls upon the ear. Every fresh thought
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