Inside Out Library · Explore

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

Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. · leaf 66

An illustration from Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX, 1903, leaf 66
ll white lawn of his habit-shirt pulledout in pretty puflfs.His hair is long andcurling. General Waller of Cromwells army, hereshown, is the very figure of a Cavalier, as hand-some a face, with as flowing hair and careful mus-tache, as the Duke of Buckingham, or Mr.Endymion Porter, — that courtier… … Sir William Waller. 38 Two Centuries of Costume hangs over his collar — it would be deemed over-long to-day. Here is Lord Fairfax in plain buff coat slightlylaced and slashed with white satin. Fanshawedressed — so his wife tells us — in phillamot bro-cade with 9 Laces every one as broad as my…

Costume · United States -- Social Life and Customs · United States -- Social life and customs To 1775

Internet Archive · New York Public Library · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.

More pictures from Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX

More like this