Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. · leaf 123
rigid of form, namely, effigies in stone or metalupon old tombs; these not after the year 1620, thoughthese are really a small leg-of-mutton sleeve be-ing gathered into the arm-scye. A beautiful brass ina church on the Isle of Wight is dated 1615. Thishas long, hanging sleeves edged with leaflike… … Virago-sleeve. Dress of the New England Mothers 83 points, ribbons, or rebato-twists. Double cufts isan entry in a Plymouth inventory —which explainsitself. In the hundreds of inventories I have inves-tigated I have never seen half a dozen entries ofcuffs. The two or three 1 have found have…
Costume · United States -- Social Life and Customs · United States -- Social life and customs To 1775
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