Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. · leaf 50
thehandsomest manner, not open nor bone lace, butclose lace something open near the head of the lace.The buttons were to be of metal with eyes of thesame, not wooden buttons with cat gut loops whichare good for nothing. These buttons were to begilt with gold wrought in imitation of cloth but-tons.… … General Samuel Waldo. The Provincial Governors 405 and everything the very best. Another glimpse ofmodes is seen in the score of fine otter skins sent toEurope from which to make a muff tor the Dukeof Argyle, though I am sensible muffs are out ofhigh fashion in London. No one was better fitted to…
Costume · United States -- Social Life and Customs · United States -- Social life and customs To 1775
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