. Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX . y braced My Aunt against a board To make her straight and tall,They laced her up, they starved her down, To make her light and pinched her feet, they singed her hair, They screwed it up with pins,Oh, never mortal suffered more In penance for her sins. 3i» Centuries of Costume Nankeen was the favorite wear for boys, even be-fore the Revolution. The little figure of the boywho became Lord Lyndhurst, shown in the Copleyfamily portrait, is dressed in nankeen; he is theengaging, loving child looking upin his mothers face. Nankeenwas
. Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX . y braced My Aunt against a board To make her straight and tall,They laced her up, they starved her down, To make her light and pinched her feet, they singed her hair, They screwed it up with pins,Oh, never mortal suffered more In penance for her sins. 3i» Centuries of Costume Nankeen was the favorite wear for boys, even be-fore the Revolution. The little figure of the boywho became Lord Lyndhurst, shown in the Copleyfamily portrait, is dressed in nankeen; he is theengaging, loving child looking upin his mothers face. Nankeenwas worn summer and winter bymen, and women, and it were deemed too thin andtoo damp a wear for delicate chil-dren in extreme winters, then ayellow color in wool was pre-ferred for childrens dress. I haveseen a little pair of breeches ofyellow flannel made precisely likethese nankeen breeches on thispage. They were worn in in his Sartor Resartus gives this accountof the childhood of the professor and philosopherof his book : —. Nankeen Breeches withSilver Buttons. My first short clothes were of yellow serge ; or rather, Ishould say, my first short cloth ; for the vesture was oneand indivisible, reaching from neck to ankle; a single bodywith four limbs ; of which fashion how little could I thendivine the architectural, much less the moral significance. It is a curious coincidence that a great philosopherof our own world wore a precisely similar dress inhis youth. Madam Mary Bradford writes in a pri-vate letter, at the age of one hundred and three, ofher life in 1805 in the household of Rev. JosephEmerson. Ralph Waldo Emerson was then a little The Dress of Old-time Children 319 child of two years, and he and his brother Williamtill several years old were dressed wholly in yellowflannel, by night and by day. When they put ontrousers, which was at about the age of seven they
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