Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 437
or France ; so the letter-books and agents-lists of American merchants are filled with ordersfor English wigs. Imperative orders for tfre earliest and extremestnew fashions stood from year to year on the lists offashionable London wig-makers ; and these constantorders came from Virginia gentlemen… … Reverend Dr. Barnard. Perukes and Periwigs 345 assumption in America than was necessitated by theweeks occupied in coming across seas. Throughout the seventeenth century all classes ofmen in American towns wore wigs. Negro slavesflaunted white horsehair wigs, goats-hair bob-wigs,natural wigs, all…
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