...with pulverized starch; the effect is indescribably disagreeable by daylight, and not very favorable at any time. They are also most unhappily partial...fashion to arise from an indolent mode of making their toilct, and from accomplished ladies' maids not being very abundant ; it is less trouble to append...

...adding to their charms. They powder themselves immoderately, face, neck, and arms, with pulverized starch; the effect is indescribably disagreeable by...false hair, which they wear in surprising quantities. ... I suspert tliis fashion to arise from an indolent mode of making their toilet, and from accomplished...

...their charms. They powder themselves immoderately, face, neck, and arms, with pulverized starch; tiie } , ... I suspect this fashion to arise from an Indolent mode of making their toilet, and from accomplished...

...pulverized starch ; the effect is indescribably -disagreeable by day-light, and not very favorable at any time. They are also most unhappily partial...false hair, which they wear in surprising quantities. I suppose this fashion arises from an indolent mode of making their toilet, and from accomplished ladies...

...adding to their charms," Englishwoman Frances Trollope wrote during her antebellum travels in America. "They powder themselves immoderately, face, neck,...by day-light, and not very favourable at any time." Certainly many women viewed powdering as an unhealthy evil, a practice that blocked the pores but stimulated...