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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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Gibbes portraits, and theQuincy portrait, is the shoes. In all four, the shoesare of buff leather, with absolutely square toes, witha thick, scarlet sole to which the buff-leather upperseems tacked with a row either of long, thick, whitestitches or of heavy metal-headed nails ; these whitedots are very ornamental. One pair of the shoeshas great scarlet roses on the instep. The squaretoe was distinctly a Cavalier fashion. It is in MissCampions portrait, facing this page, and in the printof the Prince of Orange on page 282, and is found inmany portraits of the day. But these Americanshoes are in the minor details entirely unlike anyEnglish shoes I have seen in any collection else-where, and are most interesting. They were doubt-less English in make. The portrait of John Quincy resembles much inits dress that of Oliver Cromwell when two yearsold, the picture now at Chequers Court. Crom-wells linen collar is rounded, and a curious orna-ment is worn in front, as a little girl would wear a
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Miss Campion, 1667. The Dress of Old-time Children 277 locket. The whole throat and a little of the upperneck is bare. Dark hair, slightly curled, comes outfrom the close cap in front of the ears. This pic-ture of Cromwell distinctly resembles his mothersportrait. The quaint tassel or rosette or feather on the capof the Padishal child was a fashion of the day. It isseen in many Dutch portraits of children. In a curi-ous old satirical print of Oliver Cromwell preachingare the figures of two little children drawn standingby their mothers side. One childs back is turnedfor our sight, and shows us what might well be theback of the gown of the Padishal child. The caphas the same ornament on the crown, and the hang-ing sleeves — of similar form — have, at intervals ofa few inches apart from shoulder to heel, an outsideembellishment of knots of ribbon. There is also aband or strip of embroidery or passementerie up theback of the gown from skirt-hem to lace collar, witha row of buttons on

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