Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. · leaf 240
49) refers to their wear,saying they rose an ell above the head, were like asteeple, and had long, loose pieces of fringed crapehanging down the back. The only tradition of acommode in America is curiously enough not as-cribed to the wear of a woman. On a preceding pageis a print from an old… … Mrs. Samuel Bishop. Commodes, Mobs, and Pinners 545 half-crazy whim in his always foolish head that, as herrepresentative in America, he must dress like her,he used to appear upon the ramparts of the fortdressed in hooped petticoats and rich gowns, wearinga commode and carrying a fan. The disgust…
Costume · United States -- Social Life and Customs · United States -- Social life and customs To 1775
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