Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 298
ty for many years arose, it is conjectured,from its original use as a cap for curative purposes.Such a beaver cap would unfeignedly recover toa man his hearing, and stimulate his memory to awonder, especially if the oil of castor was rubbedin his hair. The beaver hat was for centuries a choice… … Elihu Yale. Caps and Beavers in Colonial Days 229 It is a bell-crowned stove-pipe, of the precise shapeworn later by coachmen and by dandies about theyears 1820 to 1830. It is worn very much over oneroyal ear, like the hat of a well-set-up, self-importantcoachman of the palmy days of English…
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