Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 316
ss of the Quaker 607 * Oh will there never be a Nehemiah raised at ourMeetings to mourn and grieve! Oh the Fashions andrunning into them ! The young men wearing their hatsset up behind and next its likely will be a ribbon to tietheir hair up behind. And the girls in Pennsylvania havetheir necks set… … Quaker Bonnets. abomination of the times ! So much excess of tobacco ;and tea is as bad, so much of it, and they will pretend theycant go without it. And there is the calico ! Oh thecalico ! I think tobacco and tea and calico may all be setdown v/ith negroes, one as bad as the other. In another…
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