Stockings are scarcely ever used ; and during the rainy season, which is to them cold, they shuffle about in a pair of slippers, dressed in a thick blue and white cotton wrapper, or a woollen great coat faced with shag. When attending mass, a deep black... Brazil and Buenos Ayres - Seite 203von Josiah Conder - 1825Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Thomas Lindley - 1805 - 340 Seiten
...wrapper, or a woollen great coat faced with shag, similar to the German cavoys. When attending mass, a deep black silk mantle, worn over the head, conceals the transparent costume beneath. They let the hair grow to a great length : it is twisted, fastened in a knot on the head, and always... | |
| 1825 - 356 Seiten
...thick blue and white cotton wrapper or a woollen great coat faced with shag. When attending mass, a deep black silk mantle, worn over the head, conceals...some public occasions and visits of ceremony, a few ladiea of rank adopt the European dress." This has probably come more extensively into vogue. In a... | |
| 1825 - 382 Seiten
...ladies is a single petticoat over a worked chemise: stockings are rarely used. When attending mass, a deep black silk mantle, worn over the head, conceals the transparent costume beneath. In some places, the European dress is adopted by ladies of rank. Further details will occur in noticing... | |
| William Adams (M.A.) - 1832 - 516 Seiten
...wrapper, or woollen great-coat faced with shag, similar to the German envoys. When attending mass, a deep black silk mantle, worn over the head, conceals the transparent costume beneath. They let the hair grow to a great length : it is twisted, fastened in a knot on the head, and always... | |
| William Adams - 1836 - 508 Seiten
...wrapper, or woollen great-coat faced with shag, similar to the German cavoys. When attending mass, a deep black silk mantle, worn over the head, conceals the transparent costume beneath. They let the hair grow to a great length: it is twisted, fastened in a knot on the head, and always... | |
| Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1848 - 662 Seiten
...thick blue and white cotton wrapper, or a woollen great coat faced with shag. When attending mass, a deep black silk mantle, worn over the head, conceals...Graham met, she had great difficulty, she says, in recognizing the slatterns of the morning. "The Sctikoras were all dressed after the French fashion... | |
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