Volume 2

The world in miniature / edited by Frederic Shoberl.

Date:
[1821-1827?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The world in miniature / edited by Frederic Shoberl. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    embarrassing. To this absurd costume ~ the rich add rings, necklaces, and brace- lets. The extraordinary dress of the sex is nevertheless graceful from its sim- plicity and negligence: it resembles that of the Chinese ladies. Their hair, oiled like that of the men and inya- riably of the deepest black, is carefully fastened up at the back part of the head in the Grecian style, and held to- gether by gold pins, sometimes with diamond heads, or with a tortoise-shell comb adorned with gold or silver. A clot descends from the waist to the feet, and over this they wear a robe which covers them from the throat to the middle of the leg. This robe, open