Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 486
ts by various accidents. Somehad a print, but had forgotten or lost the name ofthe sitter; so the display of these several hundredpictures of the aristocracy of the early years of thecentury was, as one wrote at the time, like theresurrection of the dead. It is easy to imaginethe glad recognition,… … C. S. KonigL. Triplett. in a new possession of their portraits. But it is notthis view of the pictures which makes them memor-able to us ; it is that they afford a perfect record ofthe dress of head and shoulders of folk of that day ;for all are what was then termed in busto, and of 75- Two…
Clothing and dress
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