Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 54
eces 8 (Spanish dollars)in Algeria. Snakeskin garters were constantly wornto ward off cramp in the leg. The Provincial Governors 409 By the latter part of the eighteenth century breecheswere worn skin tight. A gentleman ordering a pairis said to have told his tailor, If I can get into em,I wont pay… … Wedding Waistcoat of Blue Uncut Velvet. 1704. them from above. Such breeches-hooks remainedtill the present day in the Roberdean house, inAlexandria, and can there be seen. Breeches-making in this century became a tradein itself, aside from tailoring, because the breecheswere commonly made of…
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