Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. · leaf 458
great creationin the formation of which his brain had such a part,—the Declaration of Independence; on that ever-to-be-remembered day of days of his whole life, hissole entry in his day-book and in his own Signers hand is this item : For Seven pair of WomensGloves, 20 shillings. Thus does a womans… … Mrs. Richard C. Derby as Saint Cecilia. CHAPTER XXX FIRST YEARS OF NATIONAL LIFE / cannot forgive a girl who is not pleased tuith dress, and does not dress to please. — Dorothy Quincy Hancock, 1780. Lady Teazle : Lud, Sir Peter, would you have me be out of the fashion ? Sir Peter: The fashion,…
Costume · United States -- Social Life and Customs · United States -- Social life and customs To 1775
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