Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. · leaf 178
^^^^^^H ^^^^^^i^hh li ^w^gl K«gSg^^ ^^Cgifc^ x»f»wj|^^^W^^^B ^^HH Lady ^Temple. VI Mid-century Modes 493 pointed, heavily boned waistband, with straps at theshoulders. In 1734 stays were worn extremely low,and again in 1795, when a paragraph in the Timesdeclared, in a satirical comment on the… … Blue Stays with White Kid Welts. high stays worn at several periods were very ugly,and produced an unnatural-looking figure. These were, to use the extreme expression ofapproval from the lips of the fribbles of the day,in the high kick of fashion. Another expressivephrase from a jesting rhyme,—…
Costume · United States -- Social Life and Customs · United States -- Social life and customs To 1775
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