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Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)

Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 396

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ts caps is a sortof quilting in a leaf and vine Infants AdJustable Cap.pattern, done with a white cord inserted between outerand inner pieces of linen — a cord stuffing, as it were.It does not seem oversuited for caps to be worn inbed or by little infants, as the stiff cords must provea… … 310 Two Centuries of Costume Often a velvet cap was worn outside the biggin orlace cap. I have never seen a woollen petticoat that wasworn by an infant of pre-Revolutionary days. Ithink infants had no woollen petticoats; theirshirts, petticoats, and gowns were of linen or somecotton stuff like…

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