Wilton, Mary Margaret Stanley Egerton: The Book of costume or, Annals of fashion: from the earliest period to the present time (London: Henry Colburn, Publisher, 1847)

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THE TOILETTE IN ENGLAND.

* * * * It is become a very interesting dispute
among connoisseurs in general, whether the present
turban roll, now worn round the Mecklenbourg caps,
was taken from the Egyptian fillet, the Persian tiara,
or the wreath round the elder Fautina’s temples.”
The following are some of the head-dresses of the
middle of the eighteenth century :—