“The custom of wearing hair-powder lasted about two centuries, and may be scarcely called extinct now, being still patronized by eccentric belles and aristocratic footmen. It certainly imparts a degree of softness to the features, but must be very inconvenient to apply, as may be judged by the preceeding engraving, of the time of Louis XV.”
From The Book of Perfumes, by Eugène Rimmel. 1865.
