. Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX . nnets are familiar to uson the head of Annes predecessor, Anne were worn even by young children. One isshown on page 108. The young lady borrowed abonnet; and a factor named Husee — the biggestgossip of his day — promptly chronicles to hermother, I saw her (Anne Basset) yesterday in hervelvet bonnet that my Lady Sussex had tired her in,and thought it became her nothing so well as the______ French hood,— but the Queens pleasure mustbe done! Doubtless some ofthe Pilgrim Motherswore bonnets like thisone of Anne Bassets,especially
. Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX . nnets are familiar to uson the head of Annes predecessor, Anne were worn even by young children. One isshown on page 108. The young lady borrowed abonnet; and a factor named Husee — the biggestgossip of his day — promptly chronicles to hermother, I saw her (Anne Basset) yesterday in hervelvet bonnet that my Lady Sussex had tired her in,and thought it became her nothing so well as the______ French hood,— but the Queens pleasure mustbe done! Doubtless some ofthe Pilgrim Motherswore bonnets like thisone of Anne Bassets,especially if the wearerwere a widow, whenthere was also an underfrontlet which was eitherplain, plaited, or folded,but which came in adistinct point in the middle of the forehead. This cap, or bandeau, with point on the forehead,is precisely the widows cap worn by Catherine deMedicis. She was very severe in dress, but sheintroduced the wearing of neck-ruffs. She alsowore hoods, the favorite head-covering of allFrenchwomen at that time. This form of head-. Hannah Callowhill Penn. The Venerable Hood 243 gear was sometimes called a widows peak, on ac-count of a similar peak of black silk or white beingoften worn by widows, apparently of all Europeannations. Magdalen Beeckman, an American womanof Dutch descent (facing page 104), wears one. Thename is still applied to a pointed growth of hair onthe forehead. It has also been known as a head-dress of Mary Oueen of Scots, because some of herportraits display this pointed outline of continued until the time of Charles II. It isoften found on church brasses, and was plainly ahead-gear of dignity. A modified form is shown inthe portrait of Lady Mary Armine. Stubbes in his Anatomie of Abuses gives a notionof the importance of the French hood when hespeaks of the straining of all classes for rich attire:that every artificers wife will not go without herhat of velvet every day ; every merchants wifeand meane gentlewoman must be in
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