[109] Smyth: _Writings of B. Franklin_, Vol. III, p. 431. [110] Smyth: _Writings of Franklin_, Vol. IV, p. 359. [111] Smyth: _Writings of Franklin_, Vol. III, p. 325. [112] Ford: _Writings of Jefferson_, Vol. IV, p. 101. [113] _Ibid._, Vol. IV, p. 208. [114] Vol. I, p. 83. [115] _Ibid._, Vol. I, p. 170. [116] _Ibid._, Vol. I, p. 492. [117] Pp. 188-9. [118] Wharton: _M. Washington_, p. 127. [119] Wharton: Martha Washington, p. 205. [120] Ford: _Writings of Jefferson_, Vol. III, p. 8. [121] Smyth: _Writings of Franklin_, Vol. III, p. 438. [122] _Ibid._, Vol. II, p. 87. [123] Wharton: _Martha Washington_, p. 86. [124] Humphreys: _Catherine Schuyler_, p. 183. [125] Smyth: _Writings of Franklin_, Vol. III, p. 323. [126] Smyth: _Writings of Franklin_, Vol. I, p. 31. [127] _Letters of A. Adams_, p. 104. CHAPTER IV COLONIAL WOMAN AND DRESS _I. Dress Regulation by Law_ Who would think of writing a book on woman without including some description of dress? Apparently the colonial woman, like her modern sister, found beautiful clothing a subject near and dear to the heart; but evidently the feminine nature of those old days did not have such hunger so quickly or so thoroughly answered as in our own times. The subject certainly did not then receive the printed notice now granted it, and it is rather clear that a much smaller proportion of the bread winner's income was used on gay apparel. And yet we shall note the same hue and cry among colonial men that we may hear to-day--that women are dress-crazy, and that the manner and expense of woman's dress are responsible for much of the evil of the world.