Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 44
ppropriatename), I do not much mind the fierce words withwhich he stigmatizes the vanity and extravagance ofwomen. I have a strong belief too that if we knewthe dress of his child-wife, we would find that heliked her bravely even richly attired, and that heacquired his wonderful mastery of every… … Sir Richard Saltonstall. Apparel of the Puritan and Pilgrim Fathers 19 wrote in real earnest, in true zeal, for the reformof the foolery and extravagance he saw around him,not against imaginary evils. There is ample proofin the writings of his contemporaries — in Shake-speres comparisons, in…
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