Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. · leaf 387
it to be pleated on to the shoulderstraps, meeting the back breadths, & some of it to goaround the neck, like the doWs. A truly unique mode of transporting fashions wasby what may be called paper dolls ; cut-paper figures.It is so simple, so clever, and so correct a means 670 Two Centuries of… … Cut Paper Pattern. ever, exist; they are preserved in a shallow box,with the written words of explanation of each detailof dress that originally accompanied them. Ourgrandmothers were so skilful in this cut-paper workthat it was natural they should employ it in sending Fashion Dolls and…
Costume · United States -- Social Life and Customs · United States -- Social life and customs To 1775
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