. Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX . e rain cloth capof black silk is curious also, being intended towear over another cap or a love-hood. The cornetcaps with lace are a Dutch fashion. The lacewas in the form of lappets or pinners which flappeddown at the side of the face over the ears andalmost over the cheeks. Evelyn speaks of a womanin a cornet with the upper pinner dangling abouther cheeks like hounds ears. Cotgrave tells inrather vague definition that a cornet is a fashion ofShadow or Boone Grace used in old time and to thisday by old women. It was not like a bongrace,no
. Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX . e rain cloth capof black silk is curious also, being intended towear over another cap or a love-hood. The cornetcaps with lace are a Dutch fashion. The lacewas in the form of lappets or pinners which flappeddown at the side of the face over the ears andalmost over the cheeks. Evelyn speaks of a womanin a cornet with the upper pinner dangling abouther cheeks like hounds ears. Cotgrave tells inrather vague definition that a cornet is a fashion ofShadow or Boone Grace used in old time and to thisday by old women. It was not like a bongrace,nor like the cap I always have termed a shadow,but it had two points like broad horns or ears withlace or gauze spread over both and hanging fromthese horns. Cornets and corneted caps are oftenin Dutch inventories in early New York. And io2 Two Centuries of Costume they can be seen in old Dutch pictures. Theywere one of the few distinctly Dutch modes thatlingered in New Netherland ; but by the third gen-eration from the settlement they had Mrs. Livingstone. What the words potto-foo and potoso-a-sa-mare mean I cannot decipher. I have tried to findDutch words allied in sound but in vain. I be-lieve the samare was a Dutch fashion. We rarelyfind samares worn in Virginia and Maryland, butthe name frequently occurs in the first Dutch in-ventories in New Netherland and occasionally in the Attire of Virginia Dames 103 Connecticut valley, where there were a few Dutchsettlers; occasionally also in Plymouth, whose firstsettlers had been for a number of years underDutch influences in Holland; and rarely in Salemand Boston, whose planters also had felt Dutch in-fluences through the settling in Essex and Suffolkof opulent Flemish and Dutch clothiers — cloth-workers. These Dutchmen had married English-women, and their presence in English homes wasdistinctly shown by the use then and to the presentday of Dutch words, Dutch articles of dress, furni-ture, and food. From these Dutch
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