Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. · leaf 219
r is scarcely worn,only, I believe, by those who are gray, too much so to gowithout powder I mean. How these ladies in the Indianfashion dress their hair behind I cannot say ; but those out ofthat fashion that I have seen, and who do not wear wigs, have 526 Two Centuries of Costume six or eight… … Mrs. Susannah Rawson. find Mrs. Randolph and Mrs. Eppes, daughters ofThomas Jefferson, preparing for their assumptionof duties at the White House, when their fatherbecame President, by writing to Mrs. Madison,ordering wigs of the most fashionable shape, to beready for their wear upon their arrival.…
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