Red Caps

Famous quotes containing the words red and/or caps:

    Her breasts under her gown
    are cold,
    for a flower has grown,
    murex-red
    on the red gown.
    Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    At the milliners, the ladies we met were so much dressed, that I should rather have imagined they were making visits than purchases. But what diverted me most was, that we were more frequently served by men than by women; and such men! so finical, so affected! they seemed to understand every part of a woman’s dress better than we do ourselves; and they recommended caps and ribbons with an air of so much importance, that I wished to ask them how long they had left off wearing them.
    Frances Burney (1752–1840)