text:  How much better how much more rational how much more becoming such head-dresses as these than the gay but useless ribands feathers and chapeaux of the one class or the misshapen uncomfortable untidy-looking bonnets of the other! According to the present system it is almost impossible to infer the rank of a lady from her external costume--many a milliner's girl has passed for a duchess before now--whereas by the adoption of articles of dress founded on principles like those of the hood some decisive marks of distinction might be obtained