Two Centuries of Costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX, Том 2Macmillan, 1903 |
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ABIGAIL ADAMS SMITH American apron banian beautiful blue bonnet Boston Bowdoin breeches bride brocade buttons calash called century CHAPTER Charles Willson Peale cloak cloth coat color Copley costume court crape curls daughter doll dress ear-rings Elizabeth Fry embroidered England English facing fashion feathers Fitz-John Winthrop flowers French garments gauze George Gilbert Stuart girl gold Governor gown green hair hair-dressing handsome Harriet Acland hats head head-dress hood hoop Horace Walpole James Bowdoin John lace Lady letters linen London Madame Madame de Sévigné married Mary Miss mode mourning muff muslin neck nightgown painted pair pantalets petticoat Philadelphia pink plain pocket portrait pretty Quaker Quaker bonnet ribbon rich robe ruffles sacque Saint Memin Salem seen shape shoes side silk silver skirts sleeves spencer straw trimmed trousers turban veil velvet waist waistcoat Washington wear wearer wife William woman women wore worn wrote young
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Сторінка 517 - Her hair in front is craped at least a foot high, much in the form of a churn bottom upward, and topped off with a wire skeleton in the same form covered with black gauze, which hangs in streamers down her back. Her hair behind is in a large braid, turned up, and confined with a monstrous large crooked comb. She reminded me of the monstrous cap worn by the Marquis La Fayette's valet — commonly called, on this account, the Marquis
Сторінка 501 - But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her, for her hair is given her for a covering.
Сторінка 558 - Of sounding an alarm assaults these doors Till the street rings ; no stationary steeds Cough their own knell, while, heedless of the sound, The silent circle fan themselves, and quake : But here the needle plies its busy task, The pattern grows, the well-depicted...
Сторінка 471 - ... them look very light : the robings and facings were little green banks with all sorts of weeds, and the sleeves and the rest of the gown loose twining branches of the same sort as those on the petticoat : many of the leaves were finished with gold, and part of the stumps of the trees looked like the gilding of the sun.
Сторінка 508 - I find the Ladies of Honour dressed in their riding garbs, with coats and doublets with deep skirts, just, for all the world, like mine; and buttoned their doublets up the breast, with perriwigs and with hats; so that, only for a long petticoat dragging under their men's coats, nobody could take them for women in any point whatever; which was an odde sight, and a sight did not please me.
Сторінка 451 - Some lusty courtiers also and gentlemen of courage do wear either rings of gold, stones, or pearl in their ears, whereby they imagine the workmanship of God not to be a little amended.
Сторінка 471 - I must describe first : — her petticoat was black velvet embroidered with chenille, the pattern a large stone vase filled with ramping flowers that spread almost over a breadth of the petticoat from the bottom to the top ; between each vase of flowers was a pattern of gold shells, and foliage embossed and most heavily rich...
Сторінка 681 - Upon the bloody shore. Stand to it, noble pikemen, And look you round about: And shoot you right, you bow-men, And we will keep them out: You musquet and calliver men, Do you prove true to me, I'le be the formost man in fight, Says brave Lord Willoughbey.
Сторінка 742 - Play not the peacock, looking everywhere about you to see if you be well decked, if your shoes fit well, if your stockings sit neatly, and clothes handsomely.
Сторінка 506 - ... other. And least it should fall down, it is vnder propped with forks, wiers, and I cannot tell what, like grim sterne monsters, rather than chaste Christian matrones.