Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 479
shoe-strings 382 Two Centuries of Costume took their place. This caused great commotionand ruin among the buckle-makers, who, with thefatuity of other tradespeople — the wig-makers, thehair-powder makers — in like calamitous changes offashion, petitioned the Prince of Wales, in 1791, todo something… … Wedding Slippers. with shoe-buckles, and fastened their shoes withplain strings. Minister Roland, one day in 1793,was about to present himself to Louis XVI whilehe was wearing shoes with strings. The old Mas-ter of Ceremonies, scandalized at having to intro-duce a person in such a state of undress,…
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