Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 393
neous. The sleeves of this shirt are plaited or goffered ina way that seems wholly lost; this is what I have VOL. I — X 3°6 Two Centuries of Costui already described — pinching. I have seen the sleeveof a childs dress thus pinched which had been wornby a little girl aged three. The wrist-cuff… … Christening Shirt and Mitts of Governor Bradford. slightly, else even this length of sheer lawn couldnot have been confined at the wrist. In the so-called Museum, gloomily scattered around the famousold South Church edifice in Boston, are fine examplesof this pinched work. Many of the finest…
Clothing and dress
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