Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 504
niversal wear of farmers in hot weather. Tightbreeches were illadapted for farmv/ork, John Adams,writing in 1774, indepression of spiritsover the lingeringwar says, A frockand trousers, spadeand hoe, will do formy remaining days.I am melancholyand anxious. Sailors wore trou-sers, wide like… … 766 Two Centuries of Costume background. Blackbeard is really as ideal a pirateas ever scuttled ship ; with his score of pistols fes-tooned in fringes around him, his burning matchserving as a band for his Monmouth cap, and greatblunderbuss in hand. His beard, too, is a perfectforest of horrors in…
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