. Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX . ings of things ; and we are close to naturewhen all dress in russet. The homely butternutsof the Kentucky mountains express this; so toodoes khaki, a good, simple native dye and stuff; soeagerly welcomed, so closely cherished, as all goodand primitive thingsshould be. So when I think ofmy sturdy Puritan for-bears in the summerplanting of Salem andof Boston, I see themin honest russet ker-sey ; gay too with thebright stamell-red oftheir waistcoats and thegrain-red liningsofman-dillions ; scarlet-cappedare they, and enlivenedwith many a grea
. Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX . ings of things ; and we are close to naturewhen all dress in russet. The homely butternutsof the Kentucky mountains express this; so toodoes khaki, a good, simple native dye and stuff; soeagerly welcomed, so closely cherished, as all goodand primitive thingsshould be. So when I think ofmy sturdy Puritan for-bears in the summerplanting of Salem andof Boston, I see themin honest russet ker-sey ; gay too with thebright stamell-red oftheir waistcoats and thegrain-red liningsofman-dillions ; scarlet-cappedare they, and enlivenedwith many a great scar-let-hooded cloak. I see them in this attire on ship-board, where they were greeted off Salem with asmell from the shore like the smell of a garden;I see them landing in happy June amid sweet wildstrawberries and fair single roses. I see them walk-ing along the little lanes and half-streets in which formany years bayberry and sweet-fern lingered in dustvfragrant clumps by the roadside. Scented with Csdar and Sweet FernFrom Heats reflection dry,. Governor John Endicott. 6 Two Centuries of Costume wrote of that welcoming shore one colonist who cameon thefirst ship, and notedin rhyme what he foundandsaw and felt and smelt. And I see the forefathersstanding under the hot little cedar trees of the Mas-sachusetts coast, not sober in sad color, but cheery inrusset and scarlet; and sweetbrier and strawberries,bayberry and cedar, smell sweetly and glow geniallyin that summer sunlight which shines down on usthrough all these two centuries. We have ample sources from which to learn pre-cisely what was worn by these first colonists — menand women — gentle and simple. We have mi-nute Lists of Apparell furnished by the Coloni-zation Companies to the male colonists; we havealso ample lists of apparel supplied to individualemigrants of varied degree; we have inventoriesin detail of the personal estates of all those whodied in the colonies even in the earliest vears — in-ventories w
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