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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 286

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ed headwear of English folk of quiet lives.Belgic Britons, Welshmen, Irish, Anglo-Saxons, Danes, and Normans all had worn caps, as well as ancient Greeks and Romans. These English caps had been of divers colors and manifold forms, some being grotesque in-deed. When we reach the reign of Henry VIII… … City Flat-cap worn by 2i8 Two Centuries of Costume It is shown also in the 1 lolbein portrait of AdamWinthrop, grandfather of Governor John Winthrop ;he was a man of dignity, Master of the Cloth Work-ers Guild. The muffin-cap of the boys of Christs Hospitalis a form of this cap. This was at first…

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