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Your Search is Over

As ever, we hate to disappoint, and I can't help noticing from the list of search terms for this site that some people must be going away unfulfilled. So for the person who wanted 'The most beautiful bird in the world’, here you are:

Trogon_Whitehead.jpg

or no, perhaps:

CedarWaxwing.jpg


or:


inbunt.jpg

It's too hard to say.

Whoever was looking for ‘humans without eyes’, I don't like the sound of that much. But here are some eyes without humans:



The person trying to find out ‘how to peacock hair’ – I imagine it would involve something like this:


And whoever came looking for ‘what colour knickers’ - I'm taking that as a request for advice, rather than a strangely vague search for facts - I suggest red, as in Haiti red underwear is thought to keep away ghosts.

Now I hope we're all happy.

Comments

It's a print titled 'Fashions in hair, 1788 -- the Academie de Coiffure, Paris' - from the NYPL's excellent digital gallery.

kindly cite the name of the publication in which this "peacock hair"image is found
thank you

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