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Title: Godey's lady's book
Year: 1840 (1840s)
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Subjects: Women American literature Costume Arts
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : L.A. Godey
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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bbon ; from the cape, pretty well at the back of th«bonnet, a plain ribbon, of the same width, ascends,meeting on top in a Letitia bow, formed of two flat loops,one turned each way, passing under a flat tie; on eachcorner of the loops are small pendent ornaments of straw.Inside, a ruche ; at the top, a broad, close bunch of pur-ple violets, with a pink moss rose and foliage on eachside. We have seen ribbon of an inch and a half in widthused in this way: three rows across the top of the bon-net, and in one case, Jive, of an inch in width, coveringthe whole bonnet. We have seen a very pretty chip hat, with cape ofbright June green ; the front has a broad, rich whiteribbon passed over it, at the top a knot, in which isplaced a light plume, which curls over the edge of thebrim, and forms a part of the bandeau ; bright greenleaves complete it. Strings of broad white ribbon. Nextmonth we commence our regular notices of spring open-ings, by Miss McConnel, Mrs. Scofield, and others. Fashion.
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