Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 301
ed and hired for many years, and evendown to the time of Queen Anne we find the rentof a subscription hat to be JC2 6s. per annum ! Thehiring out of a hat does not seem strange when hir-ing out clothes was a regular business with tailors.The wife of a person of low estate hired a gown ofQueen… … and another, were sent into the country for the mar-riage of Lord Montague. The bequest of half-worngarments was highly regarded. On the very day ofDarnleys funeral, Mary Queen of Scots gave hisclothes to Bothwell, who sent them to his tailor tobe refitted. The tailor, bold with the riot and…
Clothing and dress
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