Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. · leaf 508
; and without braces or gallows were kept up by thehips, sailor fashion. It is plain that these skilts or tongs were the universal wear of farmers in hot weather. Tight breeches were ill adapted for farm v/ork. John Adams, writing in 1774, il depression of spirits over the lingering war says, A… … The Sailor and his Sweetheart. of the pirate Thomas Teach, or Blackbeard, dated1736, with a bare-footed trousered sailor m the 766 Two Centuries of Costume background. Blackbeard is really as ideal a pirateas ever scuttled ship ; with his score of pistols fes-tooned in fringes around him, his…
Costume · United States -- Social Life and Customs · United States -- Social life and customs To 1775
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