Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 343
o impor-tant a use of it inmantua-maker. Dauphiness wasthe name of a cer-tain style of man-tle, which was mostpopular about1750. HarriotPaine had Dauph-iness Mantles forsale in Boston in1755. A rude draw-ing in an old letterindicates that theDauphiness hada deep point at theback, and was cutup high… … Cloaks and their Cousins 269 Many were the names of those pretty little cloaksand capes which were worn with the sacque-shapedgowns. The duchess was one; we revived thename for a similar mantle in 1870. The pelissewas in France the cloak with arm-holes, shown, onpage 268, upon one of Sir Joshua…
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