Chapter I: Front Matter

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Figure 1. Head-dress of Lady Ardene.
2. A kind of hat.
3. Steeple head-dress.
4, 6. Head-dresses of Lady Rolestone.
5. Heart-shaped head-dresses.
7, 8. Head-dresses of the time of Henry VIII.
9, 11. Hats of the time of George II.
10. Nithsdale hood.
12. Hat of the time of William III.
13, 14. Hats of the time of Charles I.
15, 16, 17. Head-dresses of 1798.
18. Head-dress of 1700.
19. Head-dress of the time of Henry VI.
20. Combination of figs. 7, 8.
21, 22. Hats for ladies in 1786.
23. Style of 1785.
24, 25, 26. Style of 1782.
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DRESS
AS A FINE ART.

WITH SUGGESTIONS ON CHILDREN'S DRESS.

By MRS. MERRIFIELD.

With an Introduction on
HEAD DRESS.

By Prof. Fairholt.

BOSTON:
JOHN P. JEWETT AND COMPANY.

CLEVELAND, OHIO:
JEWETT, PROCTOR, AND WORTHINGTON.

1854.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853, by
JOHN P. JEWETT & CO.,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the
District of Massachusetts

PRESS OF GEO. C. RAND,
WOOD CUT AND BOOK PRINTER,
CORNHILL, BOSTON.

STEREOTYPED AT THE
BOSTON STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY.