Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 432
he lack ofpins was much criedout upon during theRevolution. During the scarcityof pins, various home-substitutes took theirplace; thorns from sev-eral thorn-trees were usedwith inquisitive interest the spines of the pricklypear which General van Cortlandt informed himwere used by poor folk instead… … Embroidered Silk Apron. and Franklin examined yi6 Two Centuries of Costume to tradesmen setting forth for a capital city. Thelist would have a score of plain but important arti-cles of dress, often shoes, but it would always endwith 3 yards of gaws —gorz, or goz, or any con-ceivable or…
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