10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SHORTGOWN»
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1
Everyday Dress of Rural America, 1783-1800: With ...
Despite the word "gown" in its name, the shortgown was not simply a shortened
version of the open gown. For one thing, the shortgown's sleeves were cut as part
of the pattern piece that formed the body, rather than as separate pattern pieces.
2
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
Her dress during the week was a shortgown and petticoat, spun, dyed, and
woven in the district. On Sunday she wore a dress, also home-made, and being a
strict Presbyterian, did no unnecessary work on that day. Most of the people were
...
3
Reports of Cases Before the High Court and Circuit Courts of ...
I saw blood on my mother's night-shirt, and about her limbs and on the stockings,
but not on her shortgown. When I went into the room I said, 'Dear me, what's the
matter, what's this come ' over mother T and father answered that he did not ...
Scotland. High Court of Justiciary, Charles Tennant Couper, 1875
.Mrs Lithgow's dress is scarcely less dolel'ul than her daughter: a petticoat of
some dark woollen stuff, and a clean white shortgown, are scarcely enlivened by
the check apron, bright blue and white as it is, which girds in the upper garment;
but ...
Conrad Richter. new shortgown. You're too old to be a runnin' around any more
like some young Injun with his backside stickin' out.” He spoke gruffly but
Sayward could see the respect in his ...
6
Sir Robert's Fortune: The Story of a Scotch Moor
KATRIN stood under the doorway, looking out for the party: a spare, little, active
woman, in the native dress of the place, which consisted of a dark woollen skirt
and pink "shortgown," a garment not unlike the blouse of to-day, bound in by the
...
Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret), 1896
7
Rural Pennsylvania clothing: being a study of the wearing ...
THE SHORTGOWN Schard Gaund The two basic pieces of clothing worn by rural
Pennsylvania women in the last half of the 18th century were the shortgown and
petticoat. The shortgown was a long-sleeved, sometimes fitted, bodice with a ...
8
Put on Thy Beautiful Garments: Rural New England Clothing, ...
Despite the word "gown" in its name, the shortgown was not simply a shortened
version of the open gown. For one thing, the shortgown's sleeves were cut as part
of the pattern piece that formed the body, rather than as separate pattern pieces.
... always interposes in time to prevent any young man of Kirklands from
accomplishing to himself such a fate. Mrs. Lithgow's dress is scarcely less doleful
than her daughter: a petticoat of some dark woollen stud', and a clean white
shortgown, ...
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Fitting & proper: 18th century clothing from the collection ...
6. Woman's. Shortgown,. c. 1780-1800. A woman's shortgown, brown and off-
white figured print cotton, lined with off-white linen and with brown and off-white
floral printed linen in the sleeves. This shortgown was described by Claudia
Kidwell ...
Sharon Ann Burnston, Linda A Scurlock, Chester County Historical Society (West Chester, Pa.), 1998
