I think it’s time for chocolate box braids with French curl ends. My straight hair is cute but it’s a little more maintenance than I can handle right now.
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The werewolf sisters
Please share my delight in this folktale collected by Charles Joisten, from Joseph Lauzier in Champoléon in 1960:
There once lived three girls in the old water mill at Mourinou. One evening, they dressed as wolves and warmed themselves around the stove.
Some young men from neighbouring villages came to see them at their evening gathering. They were known to be pretty girls! Before going inside, they looked through the window to see if anyone was there and they saw the three werewolves. One of the young men said: "We must go back and we will arrive singing."
So, when the young girls heard singing, they quickly took off their wolf skins and the young men returned. But the young girls had not had time to properly lock up their belongings in the cupboard; there was a wolf's paw or tail sticking out.
Then the young men asked: “Huh, what is that?”
Then one of the girls replied: “If you had come a moment before, well we were wolves and we would have eaten you!”
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An 1838 comic by Paul Gavarni, from the "Letterbox" series.
The gist of it is that Corporal Telemaque, shown with his hair in papers and in the process of being curled with a hot iron, must devise an excuse as to why he cannot meet with Monsieur le Sargent Major—seemingly being composed by the young lady with her hair down.
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Marbled Monday
It's been a minute since we last posted for Marbled Monday but we're back with an exciting combed French curl or snail pattern! This pattern was created by dropping colors onto the water bath, creating a gel-git (or zig-zag) pattern with a stylus, then combing it once perpendicular to the gel-git with a fine-toothed comb creating a pattern called nonpareil, and finally using a wide-toothed comb to create the characteristic curly swirly snails. This particular pattern uses blue, maroon, cream, and yellow. The marbled paper was used for both the front and back covers and the endpapers of the book.
The book inside the lovely marbled binding is a 1779 ninth edition of Sketches from Nature, which features "upwards of one hundred portraits, or characters, of the most conspicuous persons in the kingdom." This edition was printed for George Kearsly (or Kearsley, 1739-1790) and was written by an anonymous author. It is a satirical piece with humorous profiles of well-known figures and so the names are all printed with blanks in the middles (ie: Mr. G_____s), but in our copy all of the names have been filled in by an industrious owner.
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-- Alice, Special Collections Department Manager
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ca. 1828 Paulína von Lebzeltern by Konstantin Danil (Galéria mesta Bratislavy - Bratislava-Staré Mesto, Slovakia). From tumblr.com/history-of-fashion, Her bodice has fan-like pleats.
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WE FINALLY GETTING FEMININE
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