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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 96

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st not appearwith naked breasts and arms ; or as it were pinionedwith superstitious ribbons on hair and apparell.Tailors who made garments for servants or children,richer than the garments of the parents or mastersof these juniors, were to be fined. Similar laws werepassed in Connecticut and… … The Tub-preache Dress of the New England Mothers 63 up for overdress chiefly in hoods ; and an amusingentry in the court record is that one of them, Han-nah Lyman, appeared in the very hood for whichshe was fined; and was thereupon censured forwearing silk in a fnonting manner, in an offensiveway,…

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