I Want [peppermint] Candy
A friend regularly sends me bonnet descriptions from the inventories she’s researching; one description was of a white silk bonnet with a red cherry silk ...
Tag: 18th century clothing
Compare and Contrast
Boston Massacre planning is underway for everyone involved at every level, including me. I’ve made changes to what I plan to wear, in part because I have ...
Squirrel!
It’s astonishing to me, in a way, that I haven’t posted about this before, but shockingly, I have not. Remember the need to keep warm in Princeton? ...
A Vision in Vermillion
Or scarlet, as the case may be. I’m reading Jane Kamensky’s “A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley,” and just 56 pag...
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