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Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)

Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. · leaf 319

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ugh sometimes under other names. In 1664Pepys tells of his wifes yellow birds-eye hood, very fine, to church, as the fashion now is.Planche says hoods were not displaced by caps andbonnets till George IIs time. In the list of the wedding apparell of MadamPhillips, of Boston, are velvet hoods,… … Quilted Hood. The Venerable Hood 249 among which was one black Flowered GauzeHoode, and he added rather spitefully that he could send better but it would be too rich forBoston. He was a grandson of Madam Symondsof Ipswich. Furbelowed gauze hoods were thenowned by Boston women, and must have…

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