Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 102
e well-worn wimples and nose jewels, and bells on theirfeet, which were as much out of fashion in Massa-chusetts then as now. It is such a well-rounded,ringing, colorful arraignment of womans folliesyou couldnt expect a parson to give it up. Everyevil predicted of the prophet was laid at the door… … Rebecca Rawson. Dress of the New England Mothers 67 that his parishioners drew iniquity with a cord ofvanity and sin with a cart-rope. The apostle Paulalso furnished ample texts for the Puritan preacher.In the eleventh chapter of Corinthians wise Pauldelivered some sentences of exhortation, of…
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