My husband thought we'd all get a kick out of this:
"A few years later, Abigail Adams would describe [Philadelphia's] women as 'rouged up to the ears' and fond of fashions so revealing that they 'literally look like nursing mothers.'" The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution, by David O. Stewart, p. 84.
15 July 2008
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Those darn nursing hussies again.
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