Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. · leaf 513
tom. An old chronicler tells of his first dresspantaloons : The pantaloons, over which I woreboots, were of non-elastic corduroy. It would beunjust to the tailor to say that they fitted like my 768 Two Centuries of Costume skin, for they sat a great deal closer. When I tookthem off my legs were… … Playing Golf. 1810. like a continuation of hose and garter which wasbuttoned on the outside of the leg from the waistto the ankle. An old Quaker preacher, namedJonathan Kirkbride, born in 1739, lived to advancedage; he put on trousers with great reluctance, andcomplained that they felt so slawny…
Costume · United States -- Social Life and Customs · United States -- Social life and customs To 1775
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