tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022318990784415929.post4275422522871571098..comments2023-10-20T11:17:47.246-04:00Comments on Two Nerdy History Girls: The Towering Hair of "The French Lady in London", c. 1771Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022318990784415929.post-5238102680857361362016-02-09T03:56:25.311-05:002016-02-09T03:56:25.311-05:00The French Lady with this helmet? What is this?The French Lady with this helmet? What is this?Markhttp://1escortgirls.co.uk/actonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022318990784415929.post-63670605316150052622014-09-09T16:55:08.637-04:002014-09-09T16:55:08.637-04:00Maybe those pegs are parts of underlying scaffold ...Maybe those pegs are parts of underlying scaffold (which keeps the whole edifice standing) poking out? <br /><br />The cap is truly scary. It looks like someone went really wild with a distorting tool in Photoshop.<br /><br />@Willow:<br />I'd say within five years we'll see a fashion for updoes and/or teased hair which will be as high as the fashions which spawned this caricature. I've seen some tutorials on YT which made a good start. <br /><br /><br />And I've come across the English (= perfect in every way) vs French (= smarmy scoundrels ruining our womenfolk with their devious ways) before! And in one of the books of (... reverend silence please ...) Jane Austen, to boot. Mr. Knightly was expressing his disapprobation of Frank Churchill by saying that the latter was only amiable in a French way, but not in English.<br /><br />And of course, the whole cliché lives on happily in our days, only the couple became a threesome - smarmy French, arrogant Brit, not-so-charming-but-honest-and-true US boy.Julianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022318990784415929.post-46742651450762606122014-09-08T16:50:43.249-04:002014-09-08T16:50:43.249-04:00That hair gets everywhere! Great post as ever, tho...That hair gets everywhere! Great post as ever, thoroughly enjoyed. <br /><br />I wonder if hair on that scale will ever be "in" again?WillowWinshamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10246542908881097397noreply@blogger.com