I involuntarily thought of the poetical descriptions of the northern romancers, who grow enthusiastic in praise of ideal "angels' heads with golden tresses." The hair is certainly worn in this manner here, and our poets may have borrowed their descriptions from the Scandinavians.

But the beautiful faces which are said to beam forth from among those golden locks exist only in the poet's vivid imagination.
Ornamental additions to the costume are very rare.

In the whole assembly I only noticed four women who were dressed differently from the others.
The cords which fastened their spencers, and also their girdles, were ornamented with a garland worked in silver thread.

Their skirts were of fine black cloth, and decorated with a border of coloured silk a few inches broad.

Round their necks they wore a kind of stiff collar of black velvet with a border of silver thread, and on their heads a black silk handkerchief with a very strange addition.