Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 246
ion. Youwill think it strange, coarse stuff, but it is as goodas the Queens. Mr. Felt quotes a letter written from Cape Cod,Massachusetts, in 1720: — Mobs are now worn but not so long by a quarter of ayard as mine. I was forced to cut mine half a quarter fromeach end to make them short enough for… … Mrs. Dorothea Lynde Dix. Commodes, Mobs, and Pinners 551 fastened behind with the ends hanging down. Someof the marlcet-women, who sold green stuff in Cov-ent Garden, used to wear silk handkerchiefs wrappedround their heads in this way, and a certain fair onetook a fancy to this head-gear, and made…
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