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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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up shows Charles, the Prince ofWales (aged seven), with his arm on the head of agreat dog; he is in the full garb of a grown man, aCavalier. His suit is red satin ; the shoes are white,with red roses. Mary, demure as in all her por-traits, is aged six ; she wears virago-sleeves madelike those of Margaret Gibbes, with hanging sleevesover them, a lace stomacher, and cap, with tufts ofscarlet, and hair curled lightly on the forehead, andpulled out at the side in ringlets, like that of hermother, Henrietta Maria. The Duke of York,aged two, wears a red dress spotted with yellow, withsleeves precisely like those of Robert Gibbes ; whitelace-edged apron, stomacher, and cap ; his hair is incurls. The Princess Elizabeth was aged about two ;she is in blue. Her cap is of wrought and tuckedlawn, and she wears either a pearl ear-ring or a pearlpendant at the corner of the cap just at the ear, anda string of pearls around her neck. She has a gentle,serious face, one with a premonitory tinge of sad-
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Eleanor Foster. 1755. The Dress of Old-time Children 281 ness. She was the favorite daughter of the king,and wrote the inexpressibly touching account of hislast days in prison. She was but thirteen, and hesaid to her the day before his execution, Sweet-heart, you will forget all this. Not while Ilive, she answered, with many tears, and promisedto write it down. She lived but a short time, forshe was broken-hearted; she was found dead, withher head lying on the religious book she had beenreading—in which attitude she is carved on hertomb. The baby is Princess Anne, a fat little thingnot a year old ; she is naked, save for a close cap anda little drapery. She died when three and a halfyears old; died with these words on her lips, Lighten Thou mine eyes, O Lord, that I sleepnot the sleep of Death. It was not Puritan chil-dren only at that time who were filled with deepreligious thought, and gave expression to thatthought even in infancy ; children of the Churchof England and of the Rom

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