Dona Manuela Suarez Lastra de Carmendia by Pellegrini, 1830s
Known as the “peineton” these large and elaborate combs were worn by the fashionable women of Buenos Aires. The illustration is taken from a portrait of Dona Manuela Suarez Lastra de Carmendia by Pellegrini. She wears the dress of the 1830s and a similar comb with upstanding loops which protrude from behind her high fashionable hairdressing.
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