[87] Earle:  Home Life in Colonial Days, p. 183.

[88] Page 71.

[89] Fisher:  Men, Women & Manners of Col.  Days, p. 275.

[90] Sewall:  Diary, Vol.  I, p. 59, ff.

[91] Humphreys:  Catherine Schuyler, p. 123.

[92] Humphreys:  Catherine Schuyler, p. 193.

[93] Vol.  I, p. 122.

[94] Diary, Vol.  I, p. 369.

[95] Vol.  I, p. 423.

[96] Ravenel:  Eliza Pinckney, p. 17.

[97] Memoirs of an American Lady, p. 29.

[98] Letters, p. 93.

[99] Brooks:  Dames and Daughters of Colonial Days, p. 197.

[100] Sewall:  Diary, Vol.  II, p. 31.

[101] Ebenezer Turell in Memoirs of the Life and Death of Mrs. Jane Turell.

[102] Letters of A. Adams, p. 57.

[103] Letters of Franklin, Vol.  I, p. 324.

[104] Letters of Franklin, Vol.  III, p. 378.

[105] Vol.  II, p. 93.

[106] Humphreys:  Catherine Schuyler, p. 228.

[107] Wharton:  Martha Washington, p. 116.

[108] Smyth:  Writings of B. Franklin, Vol.  II, p. 87.

[109] Smyth:  Writings of B. Franklin, Vol.  III, p. 431.

[110] Smyth:  Writings of Franklin, Vol.  IV, p. 359.

[111] Smyth:  Writings of Franklin, Vol.  III, p. 325.

[112] Ford:  Writings of Jefferson, Vol.  IV, p. 101.

[113] Ibid., Vol.  IV, p. 208.

[114] Vol.  I, p. 83.

[115] Ibid., Vol.  I, p. 170.

[116] Ibid., Vol.  I, p. 492.

[117] Pp. 188-9.

[118] Wharton:  M.  Washington, p. 127.

[119] Wharton:  Martha Washington, p. 205.

[120] Ford:  Writings of Jefferson, Vol.  III, p. 8.

[121] Smyth:  Writings of Franklin, Vol.  III, p. 438.

[122] Ibid., Vol.  II, p. 87.

[123] Wharton:  Martha Washington, p. 86.

[124] Humphreys:  Catherine Schuyler, p. 183.

[125] Smyth:  Writings of Franklin, Vol.  III, p. 323.

[126] Smyth:  Writings of Franklin, Vol.  I, p. 31.

[127] Letters of A. Adams, p. 104.

CHAPTER IV

COLONIAL WOMAN AND DRESS

I.  Dress Regulation by Law

Who would think of writing a book on woman without including some description of dress?  Apparently the colonial woman, like her modern sister, found beautiful clothing a subject near and dear to the heart; but evidently the feminine nature of those old days did not have such hunger so quickly or so thoroughly answered as in our own times.  The subject certainly did not then receive the printed notice now granted it, and it is rather clear that a much smaller proportion of the bread winner’s income was used on gay apparel.  And yet we shall note the same hue and cry among colonial men that we may hear to-day—­that women are dress-crazy, and that the manner and expense of woman’s dress are responsible for much of the evil of the world.