England under the house of Hanover : its history and condition during the reigns of the three Georges . Now drest in a cap, now naked in loose in a mob, now close in a Joan;WiihoLit handkerchief now, and now buried in ruff;Now plain as a Quaker, now all of a puff; 364 THE CALASH. [ Now a shape in neat stays, now a slattern in jumps;Now high in French heels, now low in your pumps;Now monstrous in hoop, now trapish, and walkingWith your petticoats clung to your heels, like a maulkin;Like the clock on the tower, that shews you the weather,You are hardly the same for two days togeth
England under the house of Hanover : its history and condition during the reigns of the three Georges . Now drest in a cap, now naked in loose in a mob, now close in a Joan;WiihoLit handkerchief now, and now buried in ruff;Now plain as a Quaker, now all of a puff; 364 THE CALASH. [ Now a shape in neat stays, now a slattern in jumps;Now high in French heels, now low in your pumps;Now monstrous in hoop, now trapish, and walkingWith your petticoats clung to your heels, like a maulkin;Like the clock on the tower, that shews you the weather,You are hardly the same for two days together. One description of cap or bonnet continued, how-ever, for a long time in favour. It was called a calash, and is said to have beeninvented in 1765, by theDuchess of Bedford. Thecalash was formed like thehood of a carriage, and wasstrengthened with whale-bone hoops, so that bymeans of a string in front,connected with the hoops,it could either be drawnforwards over the face, or it might be thrownbackwards over the hair. In the above cut, taken from a print engravedin 1780, the calash isthrown back, and thestring hangs looselyover the face. In thenext cut, the calash isshewn as drawn for-wards ; and the secondlady wears another ofthe numerous extrava-gant head-dresses ofthe day. This grou
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