Point Lace Barbe
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A short story from Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly in which Charlotte, the wife of a poor bookkeeper, longs for a point lace barbe to go with her new black silk gown. She lets a smuggling peddler talk her into trading her clothes and household goods for the lace, then has to hide the deal from her husband. It is fiction, not a technical treatise, but it shows period attitudes toward lace, fashion and peddlers.
- Type
- Other
- Date
- 1876
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 7
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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