New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-09-27

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one stin sees innumerable high coiHures on
the street Some of the best dressed women wear
them. and will continue to wear them. possibly
with notifications. because they have found thit
long time before the high couture becomes passt in
the sense that the incest women have dropped IL
ANCIENT DECORATIONS.
Women have always delighted to dress and deco
rate their heads. Although Holy Writ does not
tell how Eve her hair. it is quite certain that
Ewes near DESCENDANTS. the women of Babylon,
Nineveh and ancient Egypt. never happier
than when their heads were surmounted by tower
ing pyramids Of stiff little CuTls. When these for
midable architectural structures bazcd with gold
and jewels they must have presented striking
appearance. The Egyptians We're q highly civil
lied race with taste for haiIdrcssing as rnonu-
an obelisk and slab there are carvings t. SHOW I,
later generation the degree OF fussy skill which
they mad attained in tnis direction Even thSir
wigs have survived the wreck Of empires. and the
boxes in which they kept them-little toilet acces-
SORES WITH which that Pharaohs daughter VINO
hshed little Moses out Of the bulrushes was per
fecty familiar IN all probability. An Egyptian Wig
IN the British Museum contains no less than 5JO
little braided pgtails.
grace OF their natural taste more than IN me
styles Of hairdressinS which they invented. II the
delightful ways I'm which the various Nenuses
Psyches. Minervas and Junos wear theirs, how
that OF the Venus de Medci. with its bunch OF
little curs at the back, was exceedingly popular
or two back, and. in truth. whatever style Of
hairdressing to-day is SIMPLE and classical is
pretty sure TO have originated in Greece in the
days or Pericles Not few Of the Greek women 5
ideas in hairdressinF appealed the fashionable
Roman matron Of the Empire. who reproduced
them in waves and coils her own stately head.
REVOLT FROM SIMPLICITY.
With the rise Of Christianity came a return from
the artistic charm and noble simplicity Of the
classical epoch to something OF the elaboration and
artifciality of the Oriental modes. The Jewish
Wa al led viii a ned
heads. but St Padrs dctum about women not APP
pearing in church with their heads uncovered
probably had its effect in producing the revival OF
elaborate headdresSes. Coronets and wells adapted
from the ancient Oriental models in
what is known the Byzantine epoch in Rome
and ConstantinOpe. and reflected i'm of
the hard. ugly madonnas with which Byzantine
art decorated the churches. 1t would be difficult,
says The Ladies' Field 10 imagine anything
more singular than the headdress of "A Byzantine
empress, which a sort of Understanding crown.
ornamented with countless precious and
surmOunted by sort OF steeDie made of sold and
silver inside Of which tinkled profuson of little
gold bells.
The women of civilized Europe during the Mid
die Ages not far behind the Of Baby
lon and Constantinople in respect the costlness
and elaboration of their hairdressinE Sometimes
a steeple yard high made Of silver gauZe, reared
itself at the back Of a matrOn's head. whence
streamed ample veil which hung almost to the
heels At another time. in England. under Rich
ard IL an enormous heart shaped COiffe concealed
the hair. and on many a monumental brass still
existing in old cathedrals and parish churches one
NAV study with interest the weird heGddresses of
English women who fOuTshed at the courts Of
Edward " and Richard Ill
ANNE BOLEYN COUTURE.
No more graceful headdress bonnet ever
worn than the one invented by Anre Boleyn, who.
her contemporaries assert had wonderful ingenuity