Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 291
esent day. As a pair of pockets they appear in colonial inven-tories as early as the year 1650, and I cannot findthat our modern dress-pockets sewn in the skirt ofa gown were in general wear until fifty years ago.585 586 Two Centuries of Costume I These pockets were worn under the gown inCromwells… … Detached Pockets of Figured Calico and Embroidered Linen. After the pockets were worn under the gownsome one invented having them sewed into theplacket of the gown. The kinship of the wordspocket and placket is not very well known.At first, apparently, a placket was this pocket sewedinto the gown…
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