Identifier: twocentsofcostu01earl (find matches)
Title: Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911
Subjects: Clothing and dress
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company London, Macmillan & co., ltd.
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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rrow ribbon. Here is an advertisementfrom the Boston News Letter of August 14, 1729 : — Taken from the shop of Powers Mariott, Barber, a lightFlaxen Natural Wigg parted from the forehead to theCrown. The Narrow Ribband is of a Red Pink Color,the Caul is in rows of Red, Green and White Ribband. Another peruke-maker lost a Flaxen Natural wig bound with peach-colored ribbon ; while in 1755Barber Coes, of Marblehead, lost feather-topsbound with various ribbons. Some had three colorson one wig — pink, green and purple. A goats-hair wig bound with red and purple, with green rib-bons striping the caul, must have been a pretty anddignified thing on an old gentlemans head. Oneof the most curious materials for a wig was finewire, of which Wortley Montagues wig was made. We read in many histories of costume, amongthem Miss Hills recent history of English dress,that Quakers did not wear wigs. This is widelyincorrect. Many Quakers wore most fashionablymade wigs. William Penn wrote from England
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Thomas Hopkinson. Perukes and Periwigs 343 to his steward, telling him to allow Deputy Gov-ernor Lloyd to wear his (Penns) wigs. I supposehe wished his deputy to cut a good figure. From the New York Gazette of May 9, 1737, welearn of a thiefs stealing one gray Hair Wig, notthe worse for wearing, one Pale Hair Wig, not wornfive times, marked V. S. E., one brown Natural wig,One old wig of goats hair put in buckle. Bucklemeant to curl, and derivatively a wig was in bucklewhen it was rolled for curling. Roulettes or bil-bouquettes for buckling a wig were little rollers ofpipe clay. The hair was twisted up in them, andpapers bound over them to fix them in place. Theroulettes could be put in buckle hot, or they couldbe rolled cold and the whole wig heated. Thelatter was not favored ; it damaged the wig. More-over, a careless barber had often roasted a for-gotten wig which he had put in buckle and in anoven. The New York Gazette of May 12, 1750, had thisalluring advertisement: — This is to

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