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very gay. The silk gowns were think & heavy. To enlarge their hips they wore petticoats, in which wool was quilted thick, to make them to stand out. Stays, were universally worn, by women & girls. The girls wore small plain looking caps — no powder. The married, wore long ear’d Caps, & the girls round ear’d, both, ornamented with gay ribbons — The Ministers wife, alone, went to Church, without a bonnet, and holding a fan before the face, - as was then the fashion on the Seaboard. Young women, wore home made stuffs Such as Camblets, which they worked full of gay flowers, with their needles. All wore hose of their own knitting — Their shoes, high heeled & slender, were of leather & some of stuff. Some were,

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