Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 394
o present the criminal with the striking con-trast of the Old Bailey pen, that he failed to catchthe elegante. Another drawing of Mrs. Rudd, also from life, ison page 677. We may study every detail of theseportraits of her with perfect confidence that thereinwe have the very best modes of her day.… … Mrs. Rudd. these trials, and I am even willing to believe herbeautiful. But if her real face was as sly as her pic-ture, it was well she was tried by a jury of men, forno woman would trust her or believe in that sleek,treacherous, Becky Sharp countenance. It is easy to obtain a complete…
Clothing and dress
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