Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. · leaf 108
oung Boston dandy, or perhapsan English officer, mincing along thesnowy Boston streets, setting an extreme of star-tling fashion by ,,■ carrying a mon-strous muff, notat all to theliking of sober,decorous Bostonfolk. Yet suchneed not havebeen the case;for in 1725 Dr.Prince lost his black… … 44^ Two Centuries of Costume can trust his portrait, and anything but a foolishdandy; yet he, too, carried a muff, as did othersober Boston gentlemen ; another one lost a sableskin mans muff, another a black bear-skin muff,which they duly advertised. In this fashion theysimply followed, as in all…
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