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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 447

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age 37. A beard of some form was certainly universal in1620. Often it was the orderly natural growth shownon Winthrops face ; a smaller tuft on the chin witha mustache also was much worn. Many ministersin America had this chin-tuft. Among them wereJohn Eliot and John Davenport. The Stuarts worea… … The Herald Vandum. The Beard 355 great development of the periwig came a smoothface. This continued until the nineteenth centurybrought a fashion of bearded men again ; a fashionwhich was so abhorred, so reviled, so openly warredwith that I know of the bequest of a large estate withthe absolute and…

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