Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. · leaf 208
ch inthe form of a churn bottom upward and topped off with awire skeleton in the same form, covered with black gauzewhich hangs in streamers down her back. Her hair behindis in a large braid turned up and confined with a monstrouslarge crooked comb. She reminded me of the monstrouscap worn by the… … 520 Two Centuries of Costume The hair of the head is raised and supported uponcushions to an extravagant height somewhat resembling themanner in which the French ladies wore their hair someyears ago. Instead of powdering they often wash the head,which answers the purpose well enough as their own…
Costume · United States -- Social Life and Customs · United States -- Social life and customs To 1775
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