35 36 37
15th Century.
As we advance in these pages one would suppose we ought to be exhibiting styles more quiet; but, on the contrary, when we look at Figures 38 and 39, which have been selected from miniatures in MSS., it would seem that improvement was made in the wrong direction.
The caps shown on the opposite page, in Figs. 40, 41, and 42, were worn in the reign of William and Mary in 1688, and were quite becoming.
In 1750 there was a change for the worse, and as we advance to Figs. 43, 44, and 45, we find them ridiculous.
In 1789, as in Figs. 46 and 47, there is nothing added to their beauty.
Here fashion, motley goddess, changing still,
Finds ready subjects to obey her will,
Who laugh at nature and her simple rules.