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soon ceased to be artistic; for thirty years it grew higher andhigher. Poets and satirists attacked the fashion, much as theydid the high head-dresses of the Eoman matrons more than a

Fig. 68.

A lady in morning deshabille. From an engraving by Le Panltre. 1676.

thousand years ago . 20 Of the extinction of this mode we haveVarious accounts; some asserting it to have been preached down

50 The wife of Trajan wore this coiffure,a ud her sister Marcina Faustina, wife ofAntoninus, much regretted the fashionwhen it went out. Speaking of thishead-dress, says a writer in the “ Biblio-theque Universelle ” of 1693, “ On regardeTielque fois des certaines clioses commelout a fait nouvelles, qui ne sont que des' ieilles modes renouvellees. L’auteur en

appelle un exemple dans les coiffureseleve'es que portent les femmes aujour-d’hui, croyant ajouter par lh quelquechose a leur taille. Les dames Romainesavaient la meme ambition et mettaientdes ajustemens de tete tout semblablesaux Commodes et aux Fontages de cetemps. Juvenal en parle expresse'mentdans su Satire VI.”