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LADIES-IN-WAITING OF A NEPALESE COURT CLAD IN THE SILKEN AND FINE RAIMENT OF THEIR CALLING From under the three-quarter length tunic flow very full trousers, not unlike those worn by Turkish ladies, and usually made of brightly coloured muslin or thin silk. Though all colours are fashionable, pink, yellow, and orange are decidedly the favourites. The smart little velvet cap, heavily embroidered in gold, is worn at a jaunty angle, enhancing the attractiveness of the costume, the wearer of which is often very prepossessing, her large brown eyes of undisputed beauty being made additionally languid by the blackening of the lower lids |