Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 116
ichu to cover the neck. We have a few side-lights to help us, as to theshape of the whisk, in the form of advertisementsof lost whisks. In one case (1662) it is a cambricwhisk with Flanders lace, about a quarter of a yardbroad, and a lace turning up about an inch broad,with a stock in the neck and… … Mrs. Simeon Stoddard. Dress of the New England Mothers 77 These portraits show whisks in slightly varyingforms. We have the broad Lace lying downin the handsome band at the shoulder; the littlelace standing up was a narrow lace edging thewhisk at the throat or just above the broad lace.Sometimes…
Clothing and dress
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