Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. · leaf 265
by the pleats into points which devel-oped into the lace points characteristic of VanDycks later pictures and called by his name. Evelyn, describing a medal of Kiiig Charles Istruck in 1633, says, The King wears a fallingband, a new mode which has succeeded the cumber- 200 Two Centuries of Costume… … William Pyncheon. named than ruffs. Thus in an Inventory of WilliamSwift, Plymouth, 1642, he had 2 Ruff Bands and4 Playne Bands. The playne band of the Puri-tans is shown in this portrait of William Pyncheon,which is dated 1657. Ruffs and Bands 201 The first change from the full pleated ruff of…
Costume · United States -- Social Life and Customs · United States -- Social life and customs To 1775
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