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Identifier: austriahungary00mitt (find matches)
Title: Austria-Hungary
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Mitton, G. E. (Geraldine Edith)
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Publisher: London A. and C. Black
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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are only a groundwork for the curiousand elaborate head-dresses which rise from them—head-dresses with wings of stiffened velvet or silkand carrying veils recalling the wimples of the daysof the English Edwards in the thirteenth andfourteenth centuries. The appearance of these issometimes so grotesque when seen in some far-awaylittle church in a village among the mountains as tosuggest a fancy ball; and the trimming, which lookspicturesque at a distance and outside, seems tawdrywhen seen near at hand in a mass within four walls. Even the babies wear caps, and the quaintestlittle objects they sometimes are, with these glitter-ing and fantastically worked adornments constitut-ing their sole clothing, their naked little bodieslooking almost too small for their millinery. For smaller matters, every peasant woman lovesjewellery, and no girl is seen without a string of beadsaround her neck, and she often wears several ofdifferent colours. The apron is a very important adjunct, and is not
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THE PEOPLE 79 worn merely to preserve the clothing but as anornament in itself. There is generally a plain onefor the house and a decorated one for festivals andpublic functions. It is seen of all sizes, materialsand colours, from tiny scraps of lace or silk to hugecoloured ones, maybe purple with orange stripes, orscarlet and black such as the Roumanians wear.The Roumanians are peculiarly rich and choice intheir dress, and some of the most beautiful costumesof all are found in this part of the country. Thesleeve all made in one with the bodice, now sopopular in England under the name of Magyar,has been adopted from the Hungarians. The Wallach women living in Transylvania wearvoluminous white chemise-like garments, and theirimmense puffed sleeves are embroidered in designsof red and blue. Their skirts may be a long pieceof cloth clasped by silver ornaments made in curiousmassive patterns, which are repeated in their largeearrings and in chains slung across their chests,while often the

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