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Identifier: dutchnewyork01sing (find matches)
Title: Dutch New York
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Singleton, Esther, d. 1930
Subjects: Dutch Americans -- New York (State) New York New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs To 1775 New York (State) -- History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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the head-dress above the forehead, and descending in wide foldsto her feet. Sometimes she was hidden in a cloud oflace. The veil was generally worn only when the wed-ding was consecrated ; but sometimes the bride woreit all day; this was called, standing in the white. They rig themselves up nicely, writes J. Buck-man, an Englishman; they load their fingers withsuch heavy gold and silver rings that they crack. Theyrather go hungry, so that they be able to cover them-selves with silver ornaments on both sides of theirbodies, until they wabble like a fatted goose. Theclothes they wear, are that wide, that their fat stomachscan hardly be noticed. And their particular pride isin their hands that they are whiter than they ought tobe. The women of New Netherland were in no wisebehind their sisters in Fatherland of the same stationin life in their love of jewelry and rich clothes; andthe wills and inventories of the period show that themothers were able to start their daughters in life some-
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From an old print A DUTCH BRIDE IN STATE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY COURTSHIP AND MARRIAGE 225 times with considerable luxury in this respect. Goldjewelry, enamels, pearls, emeralds, and diamonds wereby no means rare in New Amsterdam. The patroons,too, were opulent and elegant in their tastes. WilliamVan Rensselaer was a pearl merchant, and it was tohim that the Earl of Bellomont applied when he wantedto satisfy his youthful brides craving for a pearl neck-lace. If any independent evidence were necessary toprove the existence here of the display of wealth andtaste in the latest style of the day, we have only to turnto Madam Knight, who tells us: The English go very fashionable in their dress. Butthe Dutch, especially the middling sort, differ from ourwomen, in their habitt go loose, were French muches w^^are like a Capp and a head band in one, leaving their earsbare, which are set out with Jewells of a large size andmany in number. And their fingers hoopt with Rings,some with large stones in

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