Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. · leaf 234
public. The sense of bareness was brokenat first by the fashion of a pair of perukes, whichI have described in the chapter upon Womens Hair;these perukes or heart-breakers were so openly arti-ficial that they might just as well be classed as a head-dress. We have a fashion to-day of tying the… … Mary Marshall, Motherof Chief Justice Mar-shall. 540 Two Centuries of Costume natural curls were tied on womens heads. Some-times the ribbon was interwoven and knotted in amore elaborate fashion. Sometimes the false knotswere held in place by a frontlet or top-piece. Thismay be seen on Madame de…
Costume · United States -- Social Life and Customs · United States -- Social life and customs To 1775
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