 | 1803 - 400 pages
...put on a robe, whrch is not open in front, they dispense with ]>etticoats altogether; their cambric chemise having the semblance of one, from its skirt being trimmed with lace. When attired for a ba those who dance, as you may observe, commonly put on j tunic, and then a petticoat becomes a matter... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - American literature - 1804 - 740 pages
...they put on a robe, which is not open in front, they dispuse with petticoats altogether, their cambric chemise having the semblance of one, from its skirt...you may observe, commonly put on a tunic, and then a petticoat becomes a matter of necessity rather than of choice. Pockets being deemed an incunibrance,... | |
 | American literature - 1887 - 890 pages
...If a robe is worn which is not open in front, petticoats are altogether dispensed with, the cambric chemise having the semblance of one from its skirt...with lace. When attired for a ball, those who dance commonly put on a tunic, and then a petticoat becomes a matter of necessity rather than of choice.... | |
 | Mary Margaret Stanley Egerton Countess of Wilton - Costume - 1846 - 508 pages
...If a robe is worn which is not open in front, petticoats are altogether dispensed with, the cambric chemise having the semblance of one, from its skirt...with lace. When attired for a ball, those who dance commonly put on a tunic, and then a petticoat becomes a matter of necessity rather than of choice.... | |
 | Mary Margaret Stanley Egerton Countess of Wilton - Costume - 1846 - 512 pages
...If a robe is worn which is not open in front, petticoats are altogether dispensed with, the cambric chemise having the semblance of one, from its skirt...with lace. When attired for a ball, those who dance commonly put on a tunic, and then a petticoat becomes a matter of necessity rather than of choice.... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1887 - 926 pages
...If a robe is worn which is not open in front, petticoats are altogether dispensed with, the cambric chemise having the semblance of one from its skirt...with lace. When attired for a ball, those who dance commonly put on a tunic, and then a petticoat becomes a matter of necessity rather than of choice.... | |
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A simple piece of linen slightly laced before, while it leaves the waist uncompressed, serves all the purpose of a corset. If a robe is worn which is not open in front, petticoats are altogether dispensed with, the cambric chemise having the semblance... 