Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. · leaf 542
ription of her dress at hermarriage runs thus : — All the clothes worn by the bride might have been putin my pocket. Her dress was of muslin richly embroid-ered, of extremely fine texture. Beneath her dress shewore but a single garment. It was told that this beautiful but certainly reck-less young… … Dolly Madison. known as a modesty or a modesty bit ; and asatirical poem of the day ran thus : — * And where their bosoms you do viewThe truth I do declare, O !A modesty they all must have If neer a smock they wear, O ! The miniature of Madame Bonaparte painted byJean Baptiste Augustine, is one of…
Costume · United States -- Social Life and Customs · United States -- Social life and customs To 1775
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