Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 420
15, 1783. Dress yourself fine where others are fine; plain whereothers are plain; but take care always that your clothes areuiell made and fit you. When you are once well dressed forthe day^ think no more of it afterwards; and without any stiff-ness for fear of disco?nposing your dress let all your… … CHAPTER XXIX DRESS DURING THE REVOLUTION O write a true account of dress duringthe years of the American Revolutionseems a well-nigh impossible thing.Never was a poor historian confrontedwith more conflicting sources. In oneletter you read of poverty, want, and privation,—the next has the story of…
Clothing and dress
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