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PREFACE. THE fact that we derive our styles of dress from the same source as the English, and that the work of Mrs. Merrifield has been circulated among the forty thousand subscribers of the London Art Journal, might perhaps be deemed sufficient apology for offering it in its present form to the American public. It has received the unqualified approbation of the best publications in this country entire chapters having been copied into the periodicals of the day this added to the above, and also to the high standing of the author, has induced the publishers to offer it to the great reading public of this country. The chapter on Head dresses, which commences the book, is of much interest in itself, and affords an explanation of many of the descriptions in the body of the work. The closing chapter, on Childrens Dress, by Mrs. Merrifield, will be deemed of more value by most persons than the cost of the entire work. A few verbal alterations only have been made in the original the good sense of every reader will enable him to understand the local allusions, and where they belong to England alone, to make the application. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. PAGE DESCRIPTION OF HEAD DRESSES 1 DRESS, AS A FINE ART, THE HEAD, CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER IV. THE DRESS 61 CHAPTER V. THE FEET 73 CHAPTER VI. REMARKS ON PARTICULAR COSTUMES, CHAPTER VII. ORNAMENT . , ECONOMY, 95 CHAPTER VIII. SOME THOUGHTS ON CHILDRENS DRESS. BY MRS. MERRIFIELD, 121 v 10 63 84 ILLUSTRATIONS. PLATE I. Figure 1. Head dress of Lady Ardene. . 15, 16, 2. A kind of hat. 3. Steeple head dress. 4, 6. Head dresses of Lady Rolestone. 5. Heart shaped head dresses. 7, 8. Head dresses of the time of Henry VIII. 9, 11. Hats of the time of George II. 10. Nithsdale hood. 12. Hat of the time of William III. 13, 14. Hats of the time of Charles I. 17. Head dresses of 1798. 18. Head dress of 1700. 19. Head dress of the time of Henry VI 20. Combination of figs. 7, 8. 21, 22. Hats for ladies in 1786. 23. Style of 1785. 24, 25, 26. Style of 1782. PLATE II. Figure 27. Style of 1782. 28, 30. Head dress of 1790. vii viii ILLUSTRATIONS. Figure 29. Head dress of the French peasantry. 31. Fashion of 1791. 32, 33. Fashion of 1789. 36. Head dress of the commencement of the present century. 35. English housemaid. 37. Gigot sleeves, with cloak worn over. 38. From a picture in the Louvre. PLATE III. Figure 39. Dress, with short waist and sleeves. 41. Dress of the mother of Henry IV. 40. Dress of Henrietta Maria. 42. From the Illustrated London News. PLATE IV. Figures 43, 44...
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