Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 296
t wear was during theempire fashions. The scant, gauzy garments, thetunics and peplums, gave no opportunity to wear apocket, and they were too frail to sustain one, sowomen were forced to carry a pocket in their hands,or to go without one. That would never pleasethe arbiter of fashions, the Empress… … Mrs. William Jackson. By Gilbert Stuart. The Pocket 591 mouth when talking or smiling, for her teeth werepoor. Another word for a reticule was cabas ; the NewEnglish Dictionary calls this an Americanism, andgives as an example a use in the year 1885. Ofcourse, this is wholly inadequate, for the…
Clothing and dress
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