Female headdresses quadrant Scenes in Rupert Street in

Scenes in Rupert Street in Soho

Michael O'Laughlen

' From Portraits of illustrious personages of Great Britain engraved from authentic pictures

Saint George might waken from the dead

Female headdresses quadrant Scenes in Rupert Street inFemale headdresses, 15th century, (1910). The frontlet was composed of a piece of rigid wire netting covered with black material which passed over the head and allowed a small loop to appear on the forehead this was designed to ease the strain on the hair caused by wearing the steeple headdress at an angle 45 degrees from the perpendicular. Illustration from British Costume during 19 Centuries by Mrs Charles H Ashdown, (London, 1910).