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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;springfld.arsenal, post: 285486, member: 54&quot;]The museum curator found this.&nbsp; I found the last part of this very interesting.&nbsp; Can anyone give me a more understandable description of her hat?&nbsp; I can picture the short skirt and high boots ok but not the hat:</p><p><br /></p><p>In “A Princess of Adventure, Marie Caroline, Duchesse de Berry”, H. Noel Williams states that Marie Caroline was “An excellent sailor, much of her time was passed upon the sea, either in a sloop-of-war [Ranger-found this in another publication] which the Admiralty had placed at her disposal, or in the royal yacht, le Triton, the most coquettish little vessel afloat, painted in white and gold, with a gilded triton at the prow, and a tiny chateau on the poop, which comprised three rooms: a salon, a dining-room, and a bedroom, sumptuously upholstered and decorated in crimson and gold. For these marine excursions Madame had had a special toilette designed; a blouse of black silk, a short skirt, high boots, and tall hat of cerecloth adorned with a gold anchor.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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