Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 48
t had to bethink himself much Apparel of the Puritan and Pilgrim Fathers 21 and ever of dress, for dress occupied vastly thethought and almost wholly the public conversationof his queenand her suc-cessor. To under-stand Raleighsdress, you mustknow the manand his life ; tocomprehend itsabsurdities… … Sir Walter Raleigh. false hair and that red, — these are the striking andplain words of the German ambassador to her court.You must look at this queen with her colorless meagreperson lost in a dress monstrous in size, yet hung,even in its enormous expanse of many square yards,with crowded…
Clothing and dress
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