Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. · leaf 145
ay by old women. It was not like a bongrace,nor like the cap I always have termed a shadow,but it had two points like broad horns or ears withlace or gauze spread over both and hanging fromthese horns. Cornets and corneted caps are offenin Dutch inventories in early New York. And I02 Two Centuries… … Mrs. Livingstone. What the words potto-foo and potoso-a-sa-mare mean I cannot decipher. I have tried to findDutch words allied in sound but in vain. I be-lieve the samare was a Dutch fashion. We rarelyfind samares worn in Virginia and Maryland, butthe name frequently occurs in the first Dutch…
Costume · United States -- Social Life and Customs · United States -- Social life and customs To 1775
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