Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. · leaf 468
^- ^°^^p^ ^pp^ Nicholson.ting, weaving cloth at home, using up old materials. Foreign economists were severe in their criticisms.The Count de Rochambeau asserted that the wivesof American merchants and bankers were clad tothe top of the French fashions. Brissot de War-ville deplores it as a great… … 736 Two Centuries of Costume pain that I remarked much of pretension in some of thesewomen ; one acted the giddy, vivacious; another theu^oman of sentiment. This last had many pruderies andgrimaces. Two among them had their bosoms very naked.I was scandalized at this indecency among republicans.…
Costume · United States -- Social Life and Customs · United States -- Social life and customs To 1775
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