Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 506
s an article agreeable to the notions of thesefemale revolutionary creatures, and proper for theirwear. This may be untrue, but it certainly is a fact thatwomen began to wear drawers, and called themtrousers, at the same time that men assumed trou-sers. Old men of courtly tastes clung closely… … Adolphus Leffingwell, aged Fourteen Years. About 1815. Evolution of Pantaloons and Pantalets 767 continued to wear them when grown. Little boys,as shown by the boys in the portraits of the Stoddertand Jay children (both given in this chapter), werewearing trousers before their fathers and…
Clothing and dress
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