Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. · leaf 288
be drawn outover the face by narrow ribbons, or bridles, whichwere fastened to the top edge. It could also bepushed flatly to the back of the head. Thus, w Green Silk Sunbonnet. Hats, Bonnets, and Calashes 581 standing well up and touching only at the neck,the calash formed a good covering for the… … Calash or Bashful Bonnet. 1790. frequently a foot and a half in diameter. MadamDorothy Lynde Dix wears one which would have,as said Anna Green Winslow, the capacity of apeck measure. Calashes were worn by old-fashioned ladles untilfifty years ago; chiefly for an informal call or a strolldown the…
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