Historic Dress in America, 1607-1800: With an Introductory Chapter on Dress in the Spanish and French Settlements in Florida and LouisianaG.W. Jacobs & Company, 1904 - 401 من الصفحات |
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apron band black silk blue bodice bonnet Boston breeches broadcloth brocade buckles buff buttons calash cambric camlet Charles II chintz Clermont Manor cloak cloth coat cocked collar colonists colours costume cotton Court crêpe cuffs curls damask ditto doublet dress Dutch eighteenth century embroidered England English falling band fashion fastened FIGURE flowers French front galloon gauze gentleman George III gold Governor gown green hair handkerchief hats head-dress Holland hood hoop hose judges knee lace lady leather Lent linen linsey-woolsey Monmouth caps muslin neck original garments pair Pennsylvania periwig petticoat Philadelphia plaits portrait powdered Quaker Queen Anne reign of Charles reign of George reign of James ribbon rich robe ruffles sacque scarlet seventeenth century shirt shoes shoulders showing silver skirt sleeves Spanish stockings striped stuff style suit tippet trimmed uniform velvet Virginia waist waistcoat wear white satin white silk William women woolen wore worn
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الصفحة 121 - A man might then behold , At Christmas, in each hall Good fires to curb the cold, And meat for great and small. The neighbours were friendly bidden, And all had welcome true, The poor from the gates were not chidden, When this old cap was new.
الصفحة 349 - As the Continental Army have unfortunately no uniforms, and consequently many inconveniences must arise from not being able always to distinguish the commissioned officers from the non-commissioned, and the non-commissioned from the privates, it is desired that some badges of distinction may be immediately provided ; for instance...
الصفحة 190 - There is an infinite variety of motions to be made use of in the flutter of a fan. There is the angry flutter, the modest flutter, the timorous flutter, the confused flutter, the merry flutter, and the amorous flutter.
الصفحة 240 - , Howl to the roarings of the Northern deep. Such is the shout, the long-applauding note, At Quin's high plume, or Oldfield's petticoat ; Or when from court a birth-day suit bestow'd, Sinks the lost actor in the tawdry load. Booth enters, — hark ! the universal peal ! " But has he spoken ?
الصفحة 190 - Not to be tedious, there is scarce any emotion in the mind which does not produce a suitable agitation in the fan; insomuch, that if I only see the fan of a disciplined lady, I know very well whether she laughs, frowns, or blushes. I have seen a fan so very angry, that it would have been dangerous for the absent lover who provoked it to have come within the wind of it ; and at other times so very languishing, that I have been glad for the lady's sake the lover was at a sufficient distance from it.
الصفحة 325 - It is needless for me to particularise the sorts, quality, or taste I would choose to have them in, unless it is observed. And you may believe me when I tell you that, instead of getting things good and fashionable in their several kinds, we often have articles sent us that could only have been used by our forefathers in the days of yore.
الصفحة 233 - The Ladies dined first, when some Good order was preserved; when they rose, each nimblest Fellow dined first— The Dinner was as elegant as could be well expected when so great an Assembly were to be kept for so long a time.— For Drink, there was several sorts of Wine, good Lemon Punch, Toddy, Cyder, Porter &c.— About Seven the Ladies & Gentlemen begun to dance in the Ball-Room— first Minuets one Round; Second Giggs; third Reels; And last of All Country-Dances; tho...
الصفحة 208 - Some of the peculiarities of the female dress was to the following effect, to wit : Ancient ladies are still alive who have told me that they often had their hair tortured for four hours at a sitting in getting the proper crisped curls of a hair curler. Some who designed to be inimitably captivating, not knowing they could be sure of professional services where so many hours were occupied upon one gay head, have actually had the operation performed the day before it was required, then have slept...
الصفحة 374 - The General, ever desirous to cherish a virtuous ambition in his soldiers, as well as to foster and encourage every species of military merit, directs that whenever any singularly meritorious action is performed, the author of it shall be permitted to wear on his facings over the left breast, the figure of a heart in purple cloth or silk, edged with narrow lace or binding.
الصفحة 252 - Whereas many Persons are so unfortunate' as to lose their Fore-Teeth by Accident, and otherways, to their great Detriment, not only in Looks, but speaking both in Public and Private : — This is to inform all such, that they may have them replaced with false Ones, that looks as well as the Natural, and answer the End of Speaking to all Intents, by PAUL REVERE, Goldsmith, near the Head of Dr.