 | John Pinkerton - Africa - 1804 - 694 pages
...trimmed with various furs. The shoes, or rather slippers, are slight, and unfit for much exercise. The dress of the women differs little from that of the men, the chief distinction being the head-dress; that of the fair sex consisting of a bonnet, like an inverted... | |
 | Noah Webster - Africa - 1806 - 304 pages
...of cloth, trimmed with fur. Their shoes or slippers are slightly made. A turban is worn on the head. The dress of the women differs little from that of the men, except the head dress, which is a sort of bonnet like an inverted basket, formed of pasteboard elegantly... | |
 | Josiah Conder - Russia - 1825 - 372 pages
...which puts their horses in disorder. As they are almost always on horseback, they are excellent riders. The dress of the women differs little from that of the men ; only their gowns are somewhat longer than the coats of the men, a little ornamented, and bordered... | |
 | Jehoshaphat Aspin - Clothing and dress - 1834 - 300 pages
...reindeer, bears, bulls, and sheep, with the hair worn inwards or outwards according to the season. The dress of the women differs little from that of the men ; except that they wear neckerchiefs, short aprons of painted cloth, and rings on their fingers and... | |
 | China - 1836 - 604 pages
...valued according to the generations they have passed through, or the number of people they have slain. The dress of the women differs little from that of the men, except that they have a finer scarf or salindong than that worn by the men, and lie their hair up much... | |
 | Mary Margaret Stanley Egerton Countess of Wilton - Costume - 1846 - 512 pages
...as well as their shirts, are worked all over with flowers in red and black worsteds : the trousers are slit at the bottom, so as to make a sort of fringe....head, and over it a small cap, round which is a little turhan : they have also silver ornaments and manv cowrv shells. * * " The Dooraunees wear a cotton... | |
 | Laurence Oliphant - Nepal - 1852 - 257 pages
...I did not see in the valley of Katmandu. In the colder months they wear home-spun woollen clothes. The dress of the women differs little from that of the men, except that the coat is longer, resembling a dressing-gown, and a sort of bodice is generally worn... | |
 | Laurence Oliphant - Kathmandu (Nepal) - 1852 - 526 pages
...I did not see in the valley of Katmandu. In the colder months they wear home-spun woollen clothes. The dress of the women differs little from that of the men, except that the coat is longer, resembling a dressing-gown, and a sort of bodice is generally worn... | |
 | Joseph Pierre Ferrier - Afghanistan - 1856 - 886 pages
...worsted. The trowsers are slit at the bottom, so as to make a sort of fringe. They also wear worsUil stockings, or perhaps worsted fillets, rolled round...the warriors wear half-boots of white goat-skin. The houses of the Kaffirs are often of wood, and they have gonerally cellars where they keep their cheeses,... | |
 | Robert B. M. Binning - Iran - 1857 - 458 pages
...very large tortoise-shell combs fastened in it, which imparts a peculiarly unmanly look to the wearer. The dress of the women differs little from that of the men ; but they mostly wear a kind of spencer or boddice, with long sleeves — a very ill-contrived garment — for... | |
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Java. The king's women and female relations walk out with a profusion of jessamines in their hair, so that the whole head is whitened, and the neck covered with them... 
