Sized head ornaments carried the ladies of Buenos Aires and Montevideo in 1830 ... Leading the social status due to their high prices!
These combs and combs made in tortoise shell and cow horn. With applications of stones, gold, ivory, shaped and pierced. Aroused the anger, ridicule, controversy and criticism reflected in the graphics and texts of the era. Such as the poem
¨ ¨ Poor Husbands said ...
As
have to like a poor man that his wife rented
by comb spend a ranch
and that
fashion looks bent??
O raised issues such .. of how to move, because the sidewalks were only slightly wider than one of those combs and what he was entitled to go first when two women were confronted on the road??
Thanks to the Museum of Costume!
