Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 138
she do add somesums to other things, till she made it perfectly cor-rect in her book — a piece of such simple duplicitythat I wonder her husband had not suspected itmonths before. And she also revealed to him thatshe would lay aside money for a necklace bypretending to pay more for household…
Clothing and dress
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