Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 268
AND CALASHES That build of bonnet whose extentShould like a doctrine of dissentPu%zle church-goers to let it in.Nor yet had reached the pitch sublimeTo which trim toques and berjsts climb.Leaving.^ like lofty Alps that throwOer minor Alps their shadoivy swayEarth*s humbler bonnets far belowTo poke… … CHAPTER XXI HATS, BONNETS, AND CALASHES RAVING written of the hat of MadamPocahontas and Puritan dames, andhaving given a chapter, as its due, tothe venerable hood, and another chap-ter to head-gear such as cauls and cor-nets, coifs and ciffers, cross-cloths and chin-clouts,commodes and towers,…
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