Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. · leaf 205
stuffs used in them was great.Some of these are wholly obsolete ; even the mean-ing of their names is lost. In an inventory of 1644,of a citizen of Plymouth there was, for instance, apetticoate of phillip & cheny worth ^i. Muchof the value of these petticoats was in the hand-work bestowed upon… … Embroidered Petticoat Band. day. Often we find items of fifteen or twenty-shillings for quilting a petticoat. The handsomest petticoats were of quilted silkor satin. No pattern was so elaborate, no amountof work so large, that it could dismay the heart ortire the fingers of an eighteenth-century…
Costume · United States -- Social Life and Customs · United States -- Social life and customs To 1775
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