Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 270
course, whether I bee addicted tosuch things or noe. Ruffs and bands were not the only neckwear ofthe colonists. Very soon there was a tendency toornament the band-strings with tassels of silk, withlittle tufts of ribbon, with tiny rosettes, with jewelseven; and soon a graceful frill of lace hung… … Captain George Curwen. Ruffs and Bands 205 Let us turn to the old inventories for the variousnames of this neckwear. A Maryland gentleman left by will, with otherattire, in 1642, Nine laced stripps, two plainstripps, nine quoifes, one call, eight crosse-cloths, apaire holland sleeves, a paire…
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