Title: Colonial Clothing - Revolution and the New Republic 1775-1800
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Content: 70 A). The collar is carried high up about the neck in the fashion of these years. When buttoned, it was made to fit slightly in at the waist, the skirts hanging a little full from the waist down. Banyans and morning gowns were fashionable to the end of the century (Plates XXXIII , XXXIV ). LINEN. - Ruffles of lawn or lace still appeared from under the coat-sleeve at the wrist (Plates XXXVIII , XXXIX , XL ), gradually, however, growing less in evidence, until by the nineties they had generally disappeared (Plate XLI A. Fig. 69 A). The plain folded stock, buckled in the back with a frill of lace, the jabot decorating the opening of the waistcoat at the throat, was worn throughout the period (Plates XL , XLI A). At times the jabot was quite small and almost hidden by the waistcoat, which was buttoned almost to the throat (Plate XXXIX ). From the beginning