Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 208
er American friends thoroughlyposted as to all the modes, writes in June ofwomens head-gear: — They wear their Heads about 2 inches high and notvery broad with two small Curies of a side. Their necksare a good deal covered. In 1783 General Huntington wrote to his wife ofPhiladelphia fashions in… … Frances Cadwalader (Lady Erskine). Womans Hair 521 It was similar to the head-gear of men at thatdate, whether the mans hair was a wig or his ownfrizzed locks. It was a French macaroni fashion,which I have noted in French pictures as early as1772. It is very probable that it was communicatedas the…
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