Shrewdness--Evidence from Franklin--Abigail Adams as Manager--General
Conclusions.


CHAPTER IV--COLONIAL WOMAN AND DRESS

I. Dress Regulation by Law--Magistrate _vs._ Women--Fines.

II. Contemporary Descriptions of Dress--Effect of Wealth and
Travel--Madame Knight's Descriptions--Testimony by Sewall, Franklin,
Abigail Adams.

III. Raillery and Scolding--Nathaniel Ward on Woman's Costume--Newspaper
Comments--Advertisement of _Hoop Petticoats_--Evidence on the Size
of Hoops--Hair-Dressing--Feminine Replies to Raillery.

IV. Extravagance in Dress--Chastellux's Opinion--Evidence from Account
Books--Children's Dress--Fashions in Philadelphia and New York--A
Gentleman's Dress--Dolly Madison's Costume--The Meschianza--A Ball
Dress--Dolls as Models--Men's Jokes on Dress--Increase in Cost of
Raiment.


CHAPTER V--COLONIAL WOMAN AND SOCIAL LIFE

I. Southern Isolation and Hospitality--Progress through Wealth--Care-free
Life of the South--Social Effect of Tobacco Raising--Historians'
Opinions of the Social Life--Early Growth of Virginia
Hospitality--John Hammond's Description in 1656--Effect of Cavalier
Blood--Beverly's Description of Virginia Social Life--Foreign