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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 174

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are known. Not only members of the familywere painted, but friends gave portraits of themselvesto each other. Sir Peter Warren and Sir WilliamPepperell thus exchanged. The splendid Copleyportrait of Colonel Scott was painted for his friend,Joshua Winslow. Smart-looking, high-colored embroidered… … Lady Temple. Mid-century Modes 493 pointed, heavily boned waistband, witii straps at theshoulders. In 1734 stays were worn extremely low,and again in 1795, when a paragraph in the Timesdeclared, in a satirical comment on the fashions, that corsettes about six inches long, and a slight bufFontucker…

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