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The Costume of China

Plate X. A LADY, AND HER SON.

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The annexed print is the representation of a Chinese Lady, and her Son, of a certain rank in life, from which no high ideas will probably be entertained of the taste in dress either of one or the other. Our modern notions of a head-dress, however, approximate those of the Chinese; though it is to be hoped that our ladies will never be brought to imitate the small and mutilated feet of the Chinese women, which disqualify them from the free use of their limbs.

Illustration from The Costume of China Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Chinese

China—Plate 11

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