Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. · leaf 427
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;… … Needle-wrought Lace Veil. the gayety in that collection of letters in which Eng-lish grammar affords but a poor conveyance forFrench courtesy. See the pretty face of PeggyChamplin with her creped hair, in the Frenchtaste ; you can fancy her dancing A SuccessfulCampaign with General Washington to…
Costume · United States -- Social Life and Customs · United States -- Social life and customs To 1775
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