Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. · leaf 68
signedto their wear ; this wasthe wide-sleeved gown.The Puritan preachersadopted in England adress of Genevan devis-ing ; though some wore Turkey gowns, gaber-dines, frocks, or night-gowns of most layfashion for avoiding ofsuperstition. Hogarthshows us many of hisclergymen wearing afull-sleeved… … Everyday Suit of Clothes of Dr.Edmund Holyoke, of Salem, Mass. 418 Two Centuries of Costume appearance of everyday plain folk in the yearsprevious to the Revolution. I have always deemedthis account of value, being the words of peoplethen living, writing without exaggeration, and with-out being…
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