. Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX . are still otherswhich are a bit bigger and are certainly capes. Andare there not also capes, like the neckatee, which maybe termed cloaks ? Material, too, is bewildering; alight gauze thing of ribbons and furbelows like theUnella is not really a cloak, yet it takes a cloaklikeform. There are no cut and dried rules as tosize, form, or weight of these cloaks, capes, collars,and hoods, so I have formed my own classes andassignments. CHAPTER X THE DRESS OF OLD-TIME CHILDREN Rise up to thy Elders, put off tby Hat, make a Leg.— Janua Linguarum,
. Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX . are still otherswhich are a bit bigger and are certainly capes. Andare there not also capes, like the neckatee, which maybe termed cloaks ? Material, too, is bewildering; alight gauze thing of ribbons and furbelows like theUnella is not really a cloak, yet it takes a cloaklikeform. There are no cut and dried rules as tosize, form, or weight of these cloaks, capes, collars,and hoods, so I have formed my own classes andassignments. CHAPTER X THE DRESS OF OLD-TIME CHILDREN Rise up to thy Elders, put off tby Hat, make a Leg.— Janua Linguarum, Comenius, 1664. Little ones are taught to be proud of their clothes beforethey can put them on — Essay on Human Understanding, Locke, 1687. When thou thyself a watery, pulpy, slobbery Freshmanand newcomer on this Planet, sattest mewling in thy nursesarms; sucking thy coral, and looking forth into the world in theblankest manner, what hadst thou been without thy blankets andbibs and other nameless hulls ? — Sartor Resartus, Thomas Carlyle, CHAPTER X THE DRESS OF OLD-TIME CHILDREN HEN we reflect that in any communitythe number of the younger sort isfar larger than of grown folk, when weknow, too, what large families our an-cestors had, in all the colonies, we mustdeem any picture of social life, any his-tory of costume, incomplete unless the dress of chil-dren is shown. French and English books uponcostume are curiously silent regarding such might be alleged as a reason for this singularsilence that the dress of young children was for cen-turies precisely that of their elders, and needed nospecification. But infants dress certainly was widelydifferent, and full of historic interest, as well as quaintprettiness ; and there were certain details of the dressof older children that were most curious and werewholly unlike the contemporary garb of their elders ;sometimes these details were survivals of ancientmodes for grown folk, sometimes their name was asurvival
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