Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 287
asure. Calashes were worn by old-fashioned ladies untilfifty years ago; chiefly for an informal call or a strolldown the garden border. Last summer I saw an 582 Two Centuries of Costume old lady standing in a calash by the roadside, nearLexington, Massachusetts, waiting for a friend toalight from… … SlatSunbonnet. One singular thing may be noted in this history,— that with all the vagaries of fashion, woman hasnever violated the Biblical law that bade her coverher head. She has never gone to church servicesbareheaded. The wife of an English naval officerwas recently excommunicated because she…
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