Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. · leaf 30
ding doublet of treen color—and what is treen but wooden andwood color is brown again. Apparel of the Puritan and Pilgrim Fathers 5 It was a fitting dress for their conditions of life.The colonists lived close to nature—they touchedthe beginnings of things ; and we are close to naturewhen all dress… … should be So when I think ofmy sturdy Puritan for-bears in the summerplanting of Salem andof Boston, I see themin honest russet ker-sey ; gay too with thebright stamell-red oftheir waistcoats and thegrain-red linings of man-dillions ; scarlet-cappedare they, and enlivenedwith many a great…
Costume · United States -- Social Life and Customs · United States -- Social life and customs To 1775
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