Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. · leaf 426
ave one every Thursday. . . . Thedress is more rediculous and pretty than anything I eversaw — a great quantity of different colored feathers on thehead at a time beside a thousand other things. The hairdressed very high, in the shape Miss Vinings was the night wereturned from Smiths — the Hat we… … yio Two Centuries of Costume The second great incentive to dress in those Rev-olutionary times was the presence of our FrenchalHes. Read of Newport during these years.Count de Rochambeau was fifty-five years old, buthe entered all the merrymaking in Newport townas if he had been but twenty-five;…
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