Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903) (14576603129)

Identifier: twocentsofcostu01earl (find matches)
Title: Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911
Subjects: Clothing and dress
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company London, Macmillan & co., ltd.
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute



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ty-two yards of scarletand silver vellum lace for guards ; six dozen scarletand silver vellum buttons, smaller breast buttons,narrow laces for the waistcoat, and silver twist forbuttonholes. The suit was lined with lutestring.There was a black beaver hat with scarlet and silveredging, and lace embroidered scarlet stockings, a richbelt and lace garters, and point lace ruffles for theneck, sleeves, and knees. This suit had an interlin-ing of scarlet camlet; and lutestring drawers seamedwith scarlet and silver lace. The total bill of ^59would be represented to-day by $1400, — a goodlysum, — but it was a goodly suit. There is a portraitof the Duchess of Richmond in a similar suit, now atBuckingham Palace. Portraits of the Duke of Bed-ford, and of George I, painted by Kneller, are almostequally beribboned. The one of the king is givenfacing this page to show his ribbons and also the ex-traordinary shoes, which were fashionable at this date. Indians gowns, or banyans, were for a century
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George I. The Evolution of Coats and Waistcoats 185 worn in England and America, and are of enoughimportance to receive a separate chapter in this book.The graceful folds allured all men and all portraitpainters, just as the fashionable new china alluredall women. The banyan was not the only Orientalgarment which had become of interest to English-men. John Evelyn described in his Tyrannus or theMode the comeliness and usefulnesse of all Per-sian clothing; and he noted with justifiable gratifi-cation that the new attire which had recently beenadopted by King Charles II was a comely dressafter ye Persian mode. He says modestly, I donot impute to this my discourse the change whichsoone happend; but it was an identity I could notbut take notice of. Rugge in his Diurnal describes the novel dresswhich was assumed by King Charles and the wholecourt, due notice of a subject of so much importancehaving been given to the council the previous month ;and notice of the kings determination never to