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Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)

Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. · leaf 539

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in Youth. t ^ ^ ^ 1 encounter. I have examined with much interest the winternumbers of La Belle Assemblee and the Lady sMagazine of the early years of the nineteenth cen-tury, and the chief emotion is that any of ourgrandmothers survived those years, so lightly werethey dressed. In January, 1807,… … Empire Fashions 785 trimmed with a border of tambour, with loose backor scalloped at the bottom. White kid and rose-colored silk low shoes were worn, with silver ro-settes, and variegated sarcenet silk cottage cloaks pretended to give warmth. In the spring pink mus-lin mantles appeared. But in…

Costume · United States -- Social Life and Customs · United States -- Social life and customs To 1775

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