Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. · leaf 230
are often referred to, all washable garments. The goodwife of Bath wore a wimple which was y-pinchedfull seemly. Henry VIII wore a pinched habit-shirt of finest lawn, and his fine, healthy skin glowedpink through the folds of the lawn after his heartyexercise at tennis and all kinds of athletic… … John Lilburne. 174 Two Centuries of Costume lent, dangerous exercise; this was one of the causesof the admiration of his subjects. The pinched partlet made a fine undergarment forthe slashed doublet. So full, so close, were these pinchings, that oneauthor complained that men wearing them could…
Costume · United States -- Social Life and Customs · United States -- Social life and customs To 1775
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