Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. · leaf 141
ny was held to be a woman of unerringtaste; but she has placed her taste on record in thesewords which she wrote in 1740, describing a recep-tion at the residence of the Prince of Wales : — 472 Two Centuries of Costume *The Duchess of Queensberrys clothes pleased mebest. They were white satin… … Mrs. Curwen. with brown chenille, round which twined nasturtiums, ivy,honeysuckles, periwinkles, convolvuluses, and all sorts oftwining flowers, which spread and covered the petticoat.Vines with the leaves variegated, as you have seen them bythe sun, all rather smaller than nature which makes…
Costume · United States -- Social Life and Customs · United States -- Social life and customs To 1775
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