THE ORIGIN OF HAIR NETS
The use of hair nets is no new thing. As early as id ancient Greece, women s hair was confined by means of gold andi silver filigree. These-hair nets were as ■beautiful as they wero useful. In the Middle Ages women wore a net over the* hair in summer, instead' of a cap. Slight-: ly. later these nets became exceedingly elaborate. They descended to the shoulders, and were united to necklaces and other jewelled ornaments. But the highest point in the development of the hair net was reached in the Renaissance, when it was adorned with precious stones and held in position on the brow with gold and silver chains. Sometimes a diadem rested Oii the brow, and every strand of hair was held by pearls in network. In some countries middle-class women wore these nets by day, though at evening functions only aristocrats might do so. Their use extended at one time even to the male sex also. ,
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 150, 22 December 1922, Page 20
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164THE ORIGIN OF HAIR NETS Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 150, 22 December 1922, Page 20
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