Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 228
ch in shape anddetail: — These doublets were this day short-waisted, anon, long-bellied ; by-and-by-after great-buttoned, straight-after plain-laced, or else your buttons as strange for smallness as werebefore for bigness. In Charles IIs time at the May-pole dances stillappear the old, welted… … An Embroidered Jerkin. sleeves, however, in the seventeenth century, whilewomen wore such sleeves. Sometimes the sleeves were very large, as in theBowdoin portrait (facing page 198). The great puffswere held out by whalebones and rolls of cotton, and tiring-sleeves of wires, a fashion which has…
Clothing and dress
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