Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. · leaf 492
with sus-picion. In the whole six hundred male portraits,but one displays a distinctly bald head. Mad-dison is thus stigmatized. One other old gentle-man has a thinly thatched pate ; the others all haveabundant locks. Can this have been a true record ?If so, what a cruel change has a century… … 754 Two Centuries of Costume mony to the truth of the notion that baldness comesfrom close cropping the hair; for these eighteenth-century men had all worn long hair; hair infrequentof clipping or cutting. French influences are plainly seen in the shape ofthe details of mens attire in these Saint…
Costume · United States -- Social Life and Customs · United States -- Social life and customs To 1775
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