Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 434
pink, green and purple. A goats-hair wig bound with red and purple, with green rib-bons striping the caul, must have been a pretty anddignified thing on an old gentlemans head. Oneof the most curious materials for a wig was finewire, of which Wortley Montagues wig was made. We read in many… … Thomas Hopkinson. Perukes and Periwigs 343 to his steward, telling him to allow Deputy Gov-ernor Lloyd to wear his (Penns) wigs. I supposehe wished his deputy to cut a good figure. From the New York Gazette of May 9, 1737, welearn of a thiefs stealing one gray Hair Wig, notthe worse for wearing,…
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