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)

310 THE TOILETTE IN SWITZERLAND.

length. When married they twist the hair round
the head in spiral lines, and fix it to the crown with
silver pins; wear straw hats and black ribands.
They fix their petticoats so high as to leave hardly
any waist.”