Female headdresses quadrant 26th March 1969

26th March 1969

the first armed uprising for independence took place in Puerto Príncipe (Camagüey Province)

Filming on the new series of the BBC comedy programme Monty Python's Flying Circus at Walton On Thames

Saint George might waken from the dead

Female headdresses quadrant 26th March 1969Female 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).