Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 503
to the knees, andwith legs and feet abso-lutely bare, afford acaricature far more ridic-ulous than any limnercould have imagined —the head and shouldersrich in steel and velvet,the feet squalid in dirt.At all times some form of trousers had beenknown and worn by English workingmen. La-borers in the… … Thomas Teach, the Pirate.Blackbeard. Evolution of Pantaloons and Pantalets 765 In Margaret^ written by Sylvester Judd, we readof a period previous to the Revolution : — The boys were dressed in tongs, a name for pantaloonsor overalls that had come into use. Thev wore checked shirts and a sort of…
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