Female headdresses mb-code IOM_MNH_1954_2501_004 Church of St Giles without

Church of St Giles without Cripplegate from Fore Street

Plate 58 from Journal of a voyage to New South Wales

Also showing a man

is shown playing cards with Russia (right) and Luxembourg (left)

Female headdresses mb-code IOM_MNH_1954_2501_004 Church of St Giles withoutFemale 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).