Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. · leaf 117
their earspierced as to be tat-tooed. I have seen asplendid portrait byGilbert Stuart of aNew England gen-tleman who woreear-rings and waspainted in ear-rings.The presence of the ear-rings in the portrait soannoyed a granddaughter, that she has had thempainted out. Many portraits of French… … M. St. Quily. By Saint Memin. Muffs and Ear-rings 457 with ear-rings bearing French surnames, dated 1798to 1805. A copy of one of these is given on page456. As Saint Memin was a gentleman, a noble-man, I cannot doubt that his friends were also menof note, but some of them look like Brussels…
Costume · United States -- Social Life and Customs · United States -- Social life and customs To 1775
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