Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. · leaf 447
ncrrp T7 A beard of some form was certainly universal in1620. Often it was the orderlv natural growth shownon Winthrops face; a smaller tuft on the chin witha mustache also was much worn. Many ministersin America had this chin-tuft. Among them wereJohn Eliot and John Davenport. The Stuarts worea… … The Beard 355 great development of the periwig came a smoothface. This continued until the nineteenth centurybrought a fashion of bearded men again ; a fashionwhich was so abhorred, so reviled, so openly warredwith that I know of the bequest of a large estate withthe absolute and irrevocable…
Costume · United States -- Social Life and Customs · United States -- Social life and customs To 1775
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