Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. · leaf 101
.This was worn by Admiral Jackson, and must havegraced some important and familiar conclave withroyalty. I have never seen in any court collectionor elsewhere a garment of equal elegance of shapeand material. We find many American portraits of men withturbans, especially when banians are worn.… … Nightgowns, Nightralls ; Banyans, Turbans 441 caps : Zincke, Rysbrach, Roubiliac, Delvaux, Kent,John Pine, Arthur Pond, John Smith, Winstanley— I take the names as they run in Walpoles Anec-dotes and as their jaunty turbans peer out of hispages. I suspect they dreaded the test of time onthe…
Costume · United States -- Social Life and Customs · United States -- Social life and customs To 1775
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