Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 496
wearMrs. James Bowdoin. By Gilbert Stuart. • t-, • SIX or seven. 1 he effect is really ridiculous; but they are fashionable, and a French woman considers nothing unbecoming or absurd that is tonish. The double fall of lace at the wrist has disappeared. This fine portrait of Mrs. James Bowdoin… … The Turn of the Century 759 In a single entry in a newspaper of the year 1801,namely : Perkale and Linen Gloves, is a clew toa detail of fashion which was most strongly accentedabout the year 181 5. I mean the covering of thehand. The cuffs of mens coatshung over the tips of their fin-gers ; the…
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