Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 267
was one of the pleasant epithetswhich, by scores, were applied to the Puritans. The bands worn by thelearned professions, twostrips of lawn with squaredends, were at first the elon-gated ends of the shirt col-lar of Jonathan Edwards.We have them still, to re-mind us of old fashions;and we have… … Reverend Jonathan Edwards. Ruffs and Bands 203 Cromwell nor his followers clung long to plain bands ;nor did they all assume them. It would be whollyimpossible to generalize or to determine the stand-ing of individuals, either in politics or religion, bytheir neckwear. I have before me a little…
Clothing and dress
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