Only in early Plantagenet times did 'virgins' shew their hair and matrons did not; by now it was normal for the tresses to be concealed behind the wimple on the rear of the hood.

Anne was partial to the French hood (the curved one) in which she was later seen, and she did a very forward thing with it: she wore no wimple and her hair was so long she could sit on it.

Her long mourning robes and her flowing wimple of black cypress, enhanced the whiteness of her skin, and the beauty of her light-coloured and flowing tresses, which time had neither thinned nor mingled with silver.

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