In 1850 a modification is observable, as shown in Fig. 50.
As we arrive at the fashions of 1870 (Fig. 51), we begin to feel more at home. Of course each generation thinks its own styles are just right, but in centuries to come modistes, no doubt, will look back upon our present styles as we do on the fashions of centuries past.
Such is life.
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Head-dress during the Restoration in A.D. 1830.
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A.D. 1850.
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