Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. · leaf 381
-grownhuman being, and werelanded at Dover dressedin richest laces. WhenEnglish ports wereclosed in war times,they were open to analabaster doll four feethigh called the GrandCourrier de la Mode. In the war of the First Empirethis privilege was not given ; and from that timeEnglish women deprived… … DoU dressed like Mrs. Bowditch.1770. Fashion Dolls and Fashion-plates 66^ dressers. The notorious hair-dresser Legros hadexhibitions of dolls coiffed in his latest dreams inhair-dressing, in forty varied styles. English mil-liners also dressed these dolls. In 1727 one wassent around among the…
Costume · United States -- Social Life and Customs · United States -- Social life and customs To 1775
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