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The psychology of dress (1920)

Parsons, Frank Alvah, 1868-1930 · Garden City, New York, Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 384

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ABOUT THE MIDDLE OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. NEW ENGLANDCOLONIAL (wife OF A MERCHANT). AN EXCELLENT EXAMPLEOF THE RESULTS OF PURITAN IDEALS IN DRESS AFTER ONE CENTURYOF DEVELOPMENT. … A LITTLE PAST THE MIDDLE OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. COLO-NIAL. NO TRACE OF PURITAN RESTRAINT, NO INDICATION OF NEWENGLAND THRIFT, AND NO LACK OF FASHIOns POWER, IS SEEN HERE.

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