Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. · leaf 167
menwere laced up in thefiercest of stays; andunder the furbelowedpetticoat was a rigidhoop. So little of thebodice was definitelyoutlined that such heavystays seem wholly su-perfluous. But some-times the gown • waswithout a sacque back,and then the corsetswere worn outside the chemisette, and… … Stomacher and Apron of FiguredDamask.
Costume · United States -- Social Life and Customs · United States -- Social life and customs To 1775
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