Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 313
ore bonnets like thisone of Anne Bassets,especially if the wearerwere a widow, whenthere was also an underfrontlet which was eitherplain, plaited, or folded,but which came in adistinct point in the middle of the forehead. This cap, or bandeau, with point on the forehead,is precisely the widows cap… … Hannah Callowhill Penn. The Venerable Hood 243 gear was sometimes called a widows peak, on ac-count of a similar peak of black silk or white beingoften worn by widows, apparently of all Europeannations. Magdalen Beeckman, an American womanof Dutch descent (facing page 104), wears one. Thename is…
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