Inside Out Library

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

Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 449

An illustration from Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX, 1903, leaf 449
190), and perhaps Kndicott favored it on thataccount. The pique-devant beard or pick-a-devantbeard, O Fine Fashion, was much worn. A goodmoderate example may be seen upon Cousin Kilvert,with doublet and band, in theprint on page 41. An extremetype was the beard of Rob-ert Greene, the… … Scotch Beard. The word peakand also the words spike represented in an old play as asking whether his cus-tomer will have his peak cut short and sharp; oramiable like an inamorato, or broad pendant like aspade ; to be terrible like a warrior and a soldado ;to have his appendices primed, or his…

Clothing and dress

Internet Archive · Getty Research Institute · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.

More pictures from Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX

More like this