Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. · leaf 493
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… … Washington Allston in Youth. portraits. Examine French portraits of the period;look, tor instance, at the familiar portrait of Robes-pierre ; look at the dress of the Incroyables. Theywere the Republicans of France — so they asserted.Their aim was extremity of dress. They wore thehighest collars,…
Costume · United States -- Social Life and Customs · United States -- Social life and customs To 1775
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