The History of Handkerchiefs

We just accept the handkerchief as a square. And they have not always been square. They used to come in all shapes and sizes. The reason that they are now square is that marie antoinette told her husband, louis the sixteenth, that she was tired of this endless variety in handkerchiefs. So immediately, louis issued a decree saying that all handkerchiefS had to be equal in width and height throughout the kingdom. That ence sted of the squareness generally f handkerchief's inand see why they had a revolution in the se. You used to be able to get satirical handkerchiefes which commemorated current events