I don’t understand exactly how any individual over the age of 8 is tired any type of longer. Hasn’t the Web killed boredom? I haven’t been tired considering that about 1993, potentially earlier. All you have to do is go into some random browse string, like “most lovely dress”, as well as you get a treasure like this:
The many lovely gown in the ball-room that season was used by miss D. It was a extremely handsome India muslin. She was not called the belle of the evening, however belle of the season. She was not only lovely as well as graceful, however so winning as well as appealing in her manners, so amiable as well as lovely, that the belle.jpgckers, who chosen all to pieces, might not discover anything to state about her.
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The women were all elegantly dressed, a few of which I will describe. One woman was dressed in white silk, with upper skirt of silk, with white illusion puffings, which swept the floor for half a yard. One widely known east Fourth- street belle used a double-skirt of illusion, little puffs about half a lawn up each side; berthe to match, trimmed with bit forget-me-nots, which might not be distinguished from natural flowers; her hair was trimmed with the exact same shade of blue flowers, drooping down on her snowy neck, which made her look a lot more like wax-work than a human being. She had not as well much religious beliefs to go to either the east or West-end, whenever she believed it appropriate to go. There were lots of others there—but I will only state they were all beautiful.
from A Hairdresser’s Experience in High Life, by Eliza Potter, 1859.
C’mon — who DOESN’T want to checked out the memoirs of an abolitionist hair stylist of Cincinnati? particularly when it’s full of stories about gossips as well as lovely gowns as well as scandal? It’s like bit women crossed with People.
[image from Victoriana.com]
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