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Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)

Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 234

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ut sleeves — all this beinglikewise true of the doublet. From this jump de-scended the modern jumper and the eighteenth cen-tury jumps— what Dr. Johnson defined in one ofhis delightsome struggles with the names of womensattire, Jumps: a kind of loose or limber staysworn by sickly ladies. Coats were… … Colonel William Legge. In 1633 we find that Governor Winthrop hadseveral dozen scarlet coats sent from England to the Bay. The consigner wrote, I could not 178 Two Centuries of Costume find any Bridgwater cloth but Red; so all the coatssent are red lined with blew, and lace suitable;which red is…

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