A Nepalese Lady.
My first view of her (says Lady Dufferin in ‘ Our Viceregal Life in India ’) was that of a mass of light gauze above, aud a pair of legs clothed in loose white trousers below. Having conducted this avalanche of gauzs to a sofa, I had time to study details. The thin pink and white striped material was not a petticoat, and I am quite at a loss to imagine how it was put on, or how many hundred yards were in it. It looked just as if a great piece had been nurolled, and unrolled, in a heap on the floor, and then picked up and half wound round and half carried by the wearer. When she sat down it was in a great fluff, and when she got up she took it in her arms, and it overflowed everything except the trousers. The body was made tight and she wore pink mittens on her hands. Another wonderful part of her was her head. Her hair is jet black, and it was combed up from the back, and two very thick plaits were arranged across the front, one on the top of the other. She had a straight fringe, and one long thin corkscrw curl on each Bide of her face.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 951, 23 May 1890, Page 4
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214A Nepalese Lady. New Zealand Mail, Issue 951, 23 May 1890, Page 4
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