. English costume. s a paille dltalie trimmed with a pro-fusion of pink roses, accompanied by a pink chiffon VOL. IV. 4 26 ENGLISH COSTUME ruffle fashioned into masses bouillonnee arrangedat intervals and circled with wreaths of shadedroses. The modern terms so vaguely used are shocking,and the descriptive names given to colours by dress-artists are horriblebeyond belief—such asWatteau pink and ele-phant grey, not to speakof Sevres-blue cherries. However, the femalemind dehghts in suchjargon and hotch-potch. Let me be kind enoughto translate our Williamand Mary fashion language. Weeds is a ter
. English costume. s a paille dltalie trimmed with a pro-fusion of pink roses, accompanied by a pink chiffon VOL. IV. 4 26 ENGLISH COSTUME ruffle fashioned into masses bouillonnee arrangedat intervals and circled with wreaths of shadedroses. The modern terms so vaguely used are shocking,and the descriptive names given to colours by dress-artists are horriblebeyond belief—such asWatteau pink and ele-phant grey, not to speakof Sevres-blue cherries. However, the femalemind dehghts in suchjargon and hotch-potch. Let me be kind enoughto translate our Williamand Mary fashion language. Weeds is a term still in use in widows weeds,meaning the entire dress appearance of a figuretto gown looped and puffed with the monte-la-haut is a gown of figured material gathered intoloops over the petticoat and stiffened out with wiresmonte-la-haut. The echelle is a stomacherlaced with ribbons in rungs like a ladder. Her pinner is her apron. The commode is the wireframe over which the curls are arranged, piled up in. WILLIAM AND MARY 27 high masses over the forehead. The top-not is a large bow worn at the top of the commode ; and the fontage or tower is a P^rench arrangement of alternate layers of lace and ribbon raised one above another about half a yard high. It was invented in the time of Louis XIV., about 1680, by Mademoiselle Fontage. The rayonne is a cloth hood pinned in a circle. The meurtriers, or murderers, are those twists in the hair which tie or unloose the arrangements of curls; and the * creve-coeurs are the row of little forehead curls of the previous reign. A muffetee is a little muff, and a chapeau-bras is a hat never worn, but made to be carried under the arm by men or women ; for the men hated to disarrange their wigs. Plumpers were artificial arrangements for fill-ing out the cheeks, and watchet eyes are blueeyes. The ladies have changed a good deal by themiddle of this reign : they have looped up the gown 4—2
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