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Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)

Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 339

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must be remem-bered that riding-dressfashions had not yet fixedon dark colors. Everytint of bright color wasused, even figured mate-rials. The QuakeressElizabeth Fry and hersix sisters, in girlhood,all had scarlet riding-habits, in which theydashed over the country,and ranged themselvesacross the… … The Amazone. 1808. The History of the Riding-habit 627 There seemed to be no hmit to the equipmentsand trimmings of habits. Where undersleeves wereworn in full dress they appear on the habits ; iffichus were the mode, fichus were worn on horse-back while artificialflowers decked riding-hats, as…

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