. The Houblon family, its story and times. broidery and grebbe^ triming on myblack velvet. It is really handsome and sets off mybest lace; for the Ruffles are so deep here, that theyrequired very littleturning in. Aclever Milliner for2 livres has madesmart, neck fallals,and we are in lovewith the old HairDresser. He sur-passes any I eversaw ; makes us vastsmart both, in halfan hour. Feathers,Flowers, Ribbon,and gauze alter-nately ornamentBetsy, and whatdelights me (tho I look hio-h frize) He Coiffure de Grande Parure (1786-1788).^ has never curled but once, and I can comb it all thro asif noth
. The Houblon family, its story and times. broidery and grebbe^ triming on myblack velvet. It is really handsome and sets off mybest lace; for the Ruffles are so deep here, that theyrequired very littleturning in. Aclever Milliner for2 livres has madesmart, neck fallals,and we are in lovewith the old HairDresser. He sur-passes any I eversaw ; makes us vastsmart both, in halfan hour. Feathers,Flowers, Ribbon,and gauze alter-nately ornamentBetsy, and whatdelights me (tho I look hio-h frize) He Coiffure de Grande Parure (1786-1788).^ has never curled but once, and I can comb it all thro asif nothing was done ! Desire M^ Revel (Mrs. Houblonsabigail) to explain that, for we cant. Paris did not at that time everywhere control thefashions, and when the daughters of the late LordMayor brought hats from Paris, they were the astonish-ment—not admiration, of all Nice. Though the crazefor modes a VAnidricaine had passed by, the head-gear of Marie Antoinettes Court had now reached theclimax of absurdity, and was ripe for the change which. ^ Grebe, the II. 2 See Racinet, CosHnuc Historiquc^ vol. vi. N 194 THE HOUBLON FAMILY she herself is said to have brought about in a singlenight. Women were wearing flower-gardens and farm-yards on their heads, when Marie Antoinette appearedat the opera with the modest coiffure with which weare familiar in De la Roches picture of the beautifulQueen in her sad day of humiliation. Frequentquestions occur in Laetitias letters with respect toLondons prevailing fashions, especially with regard tohairdressing, which was still so elaborate as to beunattainable to the skill of the ordinary ladys local hairdresser therefore dressed the heads of ourladies when they went into society high frize. Twoyears after this time a great alteration took place inwomens dress very typical of the general change inthought brought about by the Great Revolution, and itwas so much simpler in respect of coiffure, that we hearof Miss Houblons maid
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