One of the most unique exhibitions 1 have attended this year, is the just concluded show of the London Hairdressers at St. James's Hall in Piccadilly. The tropical sun makes, these July: days repetition of the Jubilee summer. Hair and hairdressing seem hot subjects for investigation, but the promise of glimpses of the styles of coiffure adopted by the fashionable dames of the sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries,' also 'a glimpse" of a ' Royal lady," who it was hinted would open proceedings by her personal patronage, decided me to brave the weather on the morning of the 4th of July. I climbed on top of abus and soon found myself in the cool hall. The "Royal lady " was conspicuous by her absence. Perhaps the alluring announcement referred to the head of Marie Antoinette, fully dressed in the bepowdered fashion of the times in which she flourished, and staring in open-eyed waxen wonder at all who entered her Court in Piccadilly.
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