Colonial days and dames . advertise-ment of elaborate wigs and coiffures forboth sexes. Even in Quaker Pennsylvaniasuch innovations began to obtain in thenext century, as we find Lewis Fay andLouis Duchateau informing the public,through the journals of the day, that theywere qualified to dress Ladies in fiftydifferent manners with their own naturalhair, while those ladies who had notsufficient hair of their own, or were sub-ject to headache, were consoled with thepromise that they could be dressed withfalse curls so well as not to be distin-guished from their natural ones. Theseaccomplished ar
Colonial days and dames . advertise-ment of elaborate wigs and coiffures forboth sexes. Even in Quaker Pennsylvaniasuch innovations began to obtain in thenext century, as we find Lewis Fay andLouis Duchateau informing the public,through the journals of the day, that theywere qualified to dress Ladies in fiftydifferent manners with their own naturalhair, while those ladies who had notsufficient hair of their own, or were sub-ject to headache, were consoled with thepromise that they could be dressed withfalse curls so well as not to be distin-guished from their natural ones. Theseaccomplished artists also assured their pa-trons that they set on brilliants or flow-ers to the greatest advantage, and, not toneglect the adornment of the sterner to dress Gentlemens hair inthirty fashionable and different mannersagreeable to their faces and airs. This sounds like gayety and frivolity; yetalthough the dignified men in satin coatsand lace ruffles who look down upon thisgeneration from the canvases of Black-. WOMEN IN THE EARLY SETTLEMENT. 91 burn, Smibert, his pupil John Copley,* andfrom those of Stuart, West, Peale, andTrumbull, were very elegant gentlemen,they were also industrious. God-fearingmen and law-abiding citizens. The ladies,their pendants upon the wall, if they weregrandes dames in a certain sense, and upongala days appeared stiff and elegant intheir brocades and satins, with hair tower-ing high or tortured into innumerable curlsand rings, were far from frivolous as a rule, * In none of his paintings does Gjpley more fullydisplay the grace and breadth of treatment which werethe distinguishing characteristics of his best work thanin the group of his own family. In this picture leans forward to caress her boy, whose handis laid confidingly upon his mothers cheek, while thelittle maid in the foreground presents a charming com-bination of childish innocence and dignity. This paint-ing possesses a more than ordinary historic interest, asthe older
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