Dress as a Fine Art, with Suggestions on Children's Dress

Dress as a Fine Art, with Suggestions on Children's Dress is by Mrs. Merrifield, with an introduction on Head Dress by Prof. Fairholt. One figure shows the fashionable head-dress of the last days of the house of York, termed the heart-shaped head-dress, made of black silk or velvet, ornamented with gold studs, and having a jewel over the forehead. A slab to the memory of John Rolestone, Esq., and Sicili, his wife, in Swarkstone Church, Derbyshire, who died in 1482, gives the head-dress of the said Sicili as a simple cap, radiating in gores over the head.

The writer says some ladies of the present day have returned to the old practice of wearing hoops, to make the dresses stand out at the base. The writer finds it difficult to imagine what there is so attractive in the fardingale and hoop, which were not recommended by beauty of line or convenience, but by the tyrant Fashion. The text calls Dr. John F. South, the author of a work entitled Domestic Surgery, a sensible medical writer who makes some very judicious observations relative to children's dress.