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Title: Camps and firesides of the revolution
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Hart, Albert Bushnell, 1854-1943 Hill, Mabel, b. 1864
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Publisher: New York : Macmillan
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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e. Then doubt not butthe voyage would prove satisfactory, which hath beenthe utmost care of Sir, Your Humble Servant, Giles Shelley. 14. The Fashions By Joseph T. Buckingham (1731) A mans CRITICISM I have no objections to make to the tippet; it may These ex-be made an elegant and beautiful ornament. In tnfcts *re ... taken from a winter the sable is wonderfully graceful and a fine newspaper ofhelp to the complexion. In summer the colors and the time, and , . ..... are a kind of compositions are to be adapted with judgment, :oke. butneither dull without fancy, nor gaudy without beauty, they describe t 1 r a.-u 1 i. i. j t i 1: some of the 1 have seen too many 01 the last; but, as 1 believe otjdities ofthem to be the first trial of a childs genius in such the dress ofperformances, I only give this hint for their amend- thetime-ment. As the breast knot allows a good deal of ingenuityin the delicate choice of colors and disposition offigure, I think it may be indulged, but very sparingly,
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ABIGAIL BISHOPS DRESS. no. i4) Fashions 41 and rather with a carelessness than the least affecta-tion. It seems there is a fashion even in the colorsof ribbons, and I have observed a beautiful purple tobe lately the general mode. It is not the beauty ofthe color that recommends it, so much as the symbolit is said to bear. I come now to the head-dress, the very highestpoint of female elegance. Here I find such a varietyof modes, such a medley of decoration, that it is hardto know where to fix. Lace and cambric, gauze andfringe, feathers and ribbons, create such a confusion,occasion such frequent changes, that it defies art,judgment, or taste, to recommend them to any stand-ard, or reduce them to any order. One ornament of thehair is styled the horns, and has been long in vogue. The hat and peruke, which has been some time Perukemade part of a ladys riding equipage, is such an odd Wlg*kind of affectation, that I hardly know under whatspecies to range it. It is such an enemy to femalebea

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