. Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX . colors of the brocade. White Kid Slippers, 1810 387 Owned by author. CHAPTER I APPAREL OF THE PURITAN AND PILGRIM FATHERS Deep-skirted doublets, puritanic capesWhich now would render men like upright apesWas comelier wear, our wiser fathers thoughtThan the cast fashions from all Europe brought. — New Englands Crisis, Benjamin Tompson, 1675. / am neither Niggard nor Cynic to the due Bravery of thetrue Gentry. _ UThg simpk Cobbler of Aiawam)- j Ward> i?I3 Never was it happier in England than when an English-man was known abroad by his own
. Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX . colors of the brocade. White Kid Slippers, 1810 387 Owned by author. CHAPTER I APPAREL OF THE PURITAN AND PILGRIM FATHERS Deep-skirted doublets, puritanic capesWhich now would render men like upright apesWas comelier wear, our wiser fathers thoughtThan the cast fashions from all Europe brought. — New Englands Crisis, Benjamin Tompson, 1675. / am neither Niggard nor Cynic to the due Bravery of thetrue Gentry. _ UThg simpk Cobbler of Aiawam)- j Ward> i?I3 Never was it happier in England than when an English-man was known abroad by his own cloth ; and contented himselfat home with his fine russet carsey hosen, and a warm slop;his coat, gown, and cloak of broiun, blue or putre, with somepretty furnishings of velvet or fur, and a doublet of sad-tawnie or black velvet or comely silk, without such cuts andgawrish colours as are worn in these dayes by those who thinkthemselves the gayest men when they have most diversities ofjagges and changes of colours. — Chronicles, Holinshed, Two Centuries of Costume CHAPTER I APPAREL OF THE PURITAN AND PILGRIM FATHERS T is difficult to discover the reasons, totrace the influences which have resultedin the production in the modern mindof that composite figure which servesto the everyday reader, the heedlessobserver, as the counterfeit presentment of theNew England colonist, — the Boston Puritan orPlymouth Pilgrim. We have a very respectablenotion, a fairly true picture, of Dutch patroon,Pennsylvania Quaker, and Virginia planter; but wesee a very unreal New Englishman. This gray oldGospeller, sour as midwinter, appears with good-wife or dame in the hastily drawn illustrations ofour daily press ; we find him outlined with greatercare but equal inaccuracy in our choicer periodicalliterature; we have him depicted by artists in ourhandsome books and on the walls of our artmuseums; he is cut in stone and cast in bronzefor our halls and parks ; he is dressed by actors fora
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