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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 205

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ed fora most revoltingly long time, but materials wereused in the dressing of the hair and making up the VOL. II — K 5i8 Two Centuries of Costume rolls (as Anna Green Winslow related), and otheradjuncts were used, which are most incredible. TheBoston Gazette of May, 1771, tells of a young… … Macaroni Head. the streets like a foot-ball. A shrewd woman im-postor, named Jemima Wilkinson, had a wonderfulcareer of successful fraud at about this time. Shegathered followers, land, and wealth, and kept them.In reading of her career, I am impressed with a beliefthat her dress had much influence…

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