Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. · leaf 403
rells and caushets (which were perhaps corsets)to make children appear straight. Costrells and gaz-zets we know not to-day. Jumps were feeble stays. ** Now a shape in neat staysNow a slattern in jumps. Jumps were allied to jimps, and perhaps to jupe;and I think jumper is a cousin of a word. One… … Rev. J. P. Dabneywhen a Child.
Costume · United States -- Social Life and Customs · United States -- Social life and customs To 1775
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