Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. · leaf 242
carlet and silver lace. The total bill of ^59would be represented to-day by $1400, — a goodlysum, — but it was a goodly suit. There is a portraitof the Duchess of Richmond in a similar suit, now atBuckingham Palace. Portraits of the Duke of Bed-ford, and of George I, painted by Kneller, are… … George I. The Evolution of Coats and Waistcoats 185 worn in England and America, and are of enoughimportance to receive a separate chapter in this book.The graceful folds allured all men and all portraitpainters, just as the fashionable new china alluredall women. The banyan was not the only…
Costume · United States -- Social Life and Customs · United States -- Social life and customs To 1775
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