Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 28
an when an English-man was known abroad by his own cloth ; and contented himselfat home with his fine russet carsey hosen, and a warm slop;his coat, gown, and cloak of broiun, blue or putre, with somepretty furnishings of velvet or fur, and a doublet of sad-tawnie or black velvet or comely silk,… … Two Centuries of Costume CHAPTER I APPAREL OF THE PURITAN AND PILGRIM FATHERS T is difficult to discover the reasons, totrace the influences which have resultedin the production in the modern mindof that composite figure which servesto the everyday reader, the heedlessobserver, as the counterfeit…
Clothing and dress
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