. Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX . ious to the year1660 seldom show black lace, and portraits are notmany of the succeeding forty years which have blacklace, so in this American portrait this detail is un-usual. The wearing of black lace came into a shortpopularity in the year 1660, through compliment tothe Spanish court upon the marriage of the youngFrench king, Louis XIV, with the Infanta. TheEnglish court followed promptly. Pepys gloried in our Mistress Stewart in black and white lace. Itinterests me to see how quickly American womenhad the very latest court fashions and
. Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX . ious to the year1660 seldom show black lace, and portraits are notmany of the succeeding forty years which have blacklace, so in this American portrait this detail is un-usual. The wearing of black lace came into a shortpopularity in the year 1660, through compliment tothe Spanish court upon the marriage of the youngFrench king, Louis XIV, with the Infanta. TheEnglish court followed promptly. Pepys gloried in our Mistress Stewart in black and white lace. Itinterests me to see how quickly American womenhad the very latest court fashions and wore them 71 Two Centuries of Costume even in uncourtlike America; such distinct noveltiesas black lace. Contemporary descriptions of dressare silent as to it by the year 1700, and it disappearsfrom portraits until a century later, when we havepretty black lace collars, capes and fichus, as may beseen on the portraits of Mrs. Sedgwick, Mrs. Waldo,and others later in this book. These first black lacesof 1660 are Bayeux laces, which are precisely like. Ancient Black Lace. our Chantilly laces of to-day. This ancient piece ofblack lace has been carefully preserved in an old NewYork family. A portrait of the year 1690 has ablack lace frill like the Maltese laces of to-day, withthe same guipure pattern. But such laces were notmade in Malta until after 1833. So it must havebeen a guipure lace of the kind known in Englandas parchment lace. This was made in the environsof Paris, but was seldom black, so this was a rare was sometimes made of gold and silver lace was a favorite lace of Mary, Queen Dress of the New England Mothers 79 of Scots, and through her good offices was peddledjn England by French lace-makers. The blackmoire hoods of Italian women sometimes had a nar-row edge of black lace, and a little was brought toEngland on French hoods, but as a whole black lacewas seldom seen or known. An evidence of the widespread extent of fashionseven in that day, a
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