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The people having cut loose from royalty, now proposed cutting loose from silk stockings, knee breeches, powdered hair, pigtails, shoe buckles, and ruffled shirts--the emblems of nobility.
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Alexander describes a societal shift away from aristocratic symbols following the American Revolution.
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