Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 125
s one. This gath-ering may be at the el-bow, forming thus twopuffs, or there may beseveral such drawing-strings. I have seen avirago-sleeve with fivepuffs. It is a fine deco-rative sleeve, not alwaysshapely, perhaps, but affording in the pretty knotsof ribbon some relief to the severity of the rest… … Ninon de lEnclos. Dress of the New England Mothers 85 and it lingered long in some modification, that wher-ever there was a slash there was a knot of ribbon ora bunch of tags or aglets. This in its origin wasreally that the slash might be tied together. Ribbonknots were much worn; the early days of…
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