Hal Simon found this quote about fashion in 1850 Texas. It is from a letter from Lucadia Pease:
I found one other cool fashion quote that I had here at home. In a letter of 1850 Lucadia Pease wrote
…I fancied from the backwoods look of the place, and the small plain looking houses that I might as well pack up my Sunday best, to take it up again only when I has left here…When our first visitors came, I made no change to my daily dress thinking that fashion could not have reached this remote corner- and I was much surprised to see my visitors in silk, with laces and fresh white undersleeves. It must strike many persons odd at first to see ladies issuing forth from log homes arrayed in such costly dress.
I found one other cool fashion quote that I had here at home. In a letter of 1850 Lucadia Pease wrote
…I fancied from the backwoods look of the place, and the small plain looking houses that I might as well pack up my Sunday best, to take it up again only when I has left here…When our first visitors came, I made no change to my daily dress thinking that fashion could not have reached this remote corner- and I was much surprised to see my visitors in silk, with laces and fresh white undersleeves. It must strike many persons odd at first to see ladies issuing forth from log homes arrayed in such costly dress.
