. Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX . y was certainly more robust, but Ifind no difference in dress. Wigs, swords, ruffles,may be seen at that time both in English and Ameri-can portraits. But an amelioration of dress did cometo both English and American boys through theintroduction of pantaloons, and a change to littlegirls dress through the invention of pantalets,but the changes came first to France, in spite ofMerciers animadversions. These changes will beleft until the later pages of this book ; for duringnearly all the two hundred years of which I writechildrens dress var
. Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX . y was certainly more robust, but Ifind no difference in dress. Wigs, swords, ruffles,may be seen at that time both in English and Ameri-can portraits. But an amelioration of dress did cometo both English and American boys through theintroduction of pantaloons, and a change to littlegirls dress through the invention of pantalets,but the changes came first to France, in spite ofMerciers animadversions. These changes will beleft until the later pages of this book ; for duringnearly all the two hundred years of which I writechildrens dress varied little. It followed the changesof the parents dress, and adopted some modes to adegree but never to an extreme. CHAPTER XI PERUKES AND PERIWIGS As to a Periwigg, my best and Greatest Friend begun tofind me with Hair before I was Born, and has continued to doso ever since, and I could not find it in my Heart to go toanother — Diary, Judge Samuel Sewall, 1718. A phrensy or a periwigmaneeThat over-runs his pericranie. — John Byron, 1730 (circa).. CHAPTER XI PERUKES AND PERIWIGS 0-DAY, when every man, save a foot-ball player or some eccentric reformeror religious fanatic, displays in youtha close-cropped head, and when evenhoary age is seldom graced with flow-ing, silvery locks, when womens hair is dressed insimplicity, we can scarcely realize the important andformal part the hair played in the dress of the eigh-teenth century. In the great eagerness shown from earliest colo-nial days to acquire and reproduce in the New Worldevery change of mode in the Old, to purchase richdress, and to assume novel dress, no article wassought for more speedily and more anxiously thanthe wig. It has proved an interesting study to com-pare the introduction of wigs in England with thewear of the same form of head-gear in were not in general use in England whenPlymouth and Boston were settled ; though in Eliza-beths day a peryuke had been bought for thecourt fool. They were not in
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