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Sarah Polk's headdress

Sarah Polk's headdress

Fashionable women of Sarah Polk’s era often wore their hair parted in the middle with large, sausage sized ringlets framing their faces. Headdresses, like this purple velvet “wreath” worn by the first lady, were placed on the “back hair.”

Photographer
Bruce White
Credit
James K. Polk Ancestral Home Collection