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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 206

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ial, but exceed-ingly plain. Her complexion was extraordinarilyfine, while her splendid hair was always kept in ex-quisite order and dressed very simply, part of it inlong curls ; and hair and dress were ever noticeablyand radiantly clean, and were so noted by all chroni-clers. I believe a… … Lady Kennedy. Her hair in front is craped at least a foot high, much inthe form of a churn bottom upward and topped off with awire skeleton in the same form, covered with black gauzewhich hangs in streamers down her back. Her hair behindis in a large braid turned up and confined with a…

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