Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX
A two-volume social history of American dress from 1620 to 1820, written by Alice Morse Earle and published by Macmillan in New York and London in 1903 for general readers and students of manners. The plates are halftone reproductions of colonial-era portrait paintings and engravings, showing hoods, ruffs, slashed sleeves, lace cuffs and tall hats in soft grey tonal ranges useful as period figure references and costume detail sources.
