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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 84

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confesse that there be some ornaments which for Virgins andKnights Daughters &c may be comly and tollerrable wch yet insoe great a change as thine is, may well admitt a change allso;I will medle with noe particulars neither doe I thinke it shallbe needfull; thine own wisdome and godliness shall… … CHAPTER II DRESS OF THE NEW ENGLAND MOTHERS HAVE expressed a doubt that thedress of Cavalier and Puritan varied asmuch as has been popularly believed ;I feel sure that the dress of Puritanwomen did not differ from the attireof women of quiet life who remained in the Churchof England; nor did it…

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