Two Centuries of Costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX, Volume 1Macmillan, 1903 - Clothing and dress A simple guide to nature study describing the characteristics of common trees, flowers, and animals. Also includes directions for making handicrafts out of easily available materials. |
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aglets American apparel apron attire band beard beaver black lace Born Boston breeches buckle buttons called cassock century CHAPTER child cloak clogs cloth coat collar colonists colony color costume Cotton Mather court cuffs curious curled daughter died doublet Dutch Earl edge Elizabeth embroidered England English facing Falling Band fashion Fort Orange French hood garments gentlemen Gibbes gloves gold Governor gown hair handsome hanging sleeves head Indian jerkin John John Winthrop King knots lace Lady leather letters linen London Madam married Mary Monmouth Cap neck painted pair pattens Pepys periwig perukes petticoat Philip Stubbes plain Plymouth portrait Puritan Quaker Queen ribbon rich Robert Gibbes Roundhead ruff Salem Samuel Sewall satin scarlet seen sent shoes silk silver slashed slippers Steinkirk Stubbes stuff sumptuary laws to-day trimmed velvet Virginia waistcoat wear whisk wife Winthrop woman women word wore worn wrote
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Page 317 - They braced my aunt against a board, To make her straight and tall ; They laced her up, they starved her down, To make her light and small; They pinched her feet, they singed her hair, They screwed it up with pins; — Oh, never mortal suffered more In penance for her sins.
Page 36 - I knew not, very ordinarily apparelled, for it was a plain cloth suit, which seemed to have been made by an ill country tailor. His linen was plain, and' not very clean ; and I remember a speck or two of blood upon his little band, which was not much larger than his collar. His hat was without a hatband ; his stature was of a good size ; his sword stuck close to his side, his countenance swollen and reddish, his voice sharp and untunable, and his eloquence full of fervour.
Page 161 - This day the King begins to put on his vest, and I did see several persons of the House of Lords and Commons too, great courtiers, who are in it; being a long cassocke close to the body, of black cloth, and pinked with white silk under it, and a coat over it, and the legs ruffled with black riband like a pigeon's leg ; and, upon the whole, I wish the King may keep it, for it is a very fine and handsome garment.
Page 109 - Not then a Slave for twice two Year. My Cloaths were fashionably new, Nor were my Shifts of Linnen Blue; But things are changed, now at the Hoe, I daily work, and Bare-foot go, In weeding Corn or feeding Swine, I spend my melancholy Time.
Page 23 - Raleigh's, is a good piece, an original of Sir Walter, in a white satin doublet, all embroidered with rich pearls, and a mighty rich chain of great pearls about his neck. The old servants have told me that the pearls were near as big as the painted ones. He had a most remarkable aspect, an exceeding high forehead, long-faced and sour-eyelidded.
Page 355 - The stiletto beard, oh ! it makes me afeard, It is so sharp beneath, For he that doth place a dagger in 'в face, What wears he in his sheath ? But raethinks I do itch to go thro...
Page 36 - ... well clad, and perceived a gentleman speaking whom I knew not, very ordinarily apparelled ; for it was a plain cloth suit which seemed to have been made by an ill country tailor ; his linen was plain, and not very clean, and I remember a speck or two of blood upon his little band, which was not much larger than his collar ; his hat was without a hatband ; his stature was of a good size ; his sword stuck close to his side ; his countenance swollen and reddish ; his voice sharp and untunable, and...
Page 326 - I bought it; and it is a wonder what will be the fashion after the plague is done, as to periwigs, for nobody will dare to buy any hair, for fear of the infection, that it had been cut off the heads of people dead of the plague My Lord Brouncker, Sir J.
Page 326 - Up; and put on my coloured silk suit very fine, and my new periwigg, bought a good while since, but durst not wear, because the plague was in Westminster when I bought it; and it is a wonder what will be the fashion after the plague is done, as to periwiggs, for nobody will dare to buy any haire, for fear of the infection, that it had been cut off...
Page 334 - Hair was streight, and that it parted behinde. Seem'd to argue that men might as well shave their hair off their head, as off their face. I answered men were men before they had hair on their faces, (half of mankind have never any).