Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 122
he first womanof any promi-nence to wear it,I find from thefull notes I havemade of hun-dreds of Englishportraits, wasQueen Anne, asshown in herportrait of 1695.She was painted then by Dahl with her poor littleson William. The Duchess of Marlborough is astill more familiar example of the dress.… … Fair Evelyn Byrd. 464 Two Centuries of Costume demanded a small waist. The shoulders were notbroad, the arms were slender — a great waist wouldhave been incongruous indeed. The lovely portrait of fair Evelyn Byrd may betaken as an example of the simple dignity of thedress of that date. The…
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