Haute Couture

[la_samtyr]

Charleston Museum conserves a centuries-old vestige of the Lowcountry
If Gowns Could Talk
By Mary Scott Hardaway


On May 2, 1740, at the age of 18, Eliza Lucas Pinckney wrote to her friend Mrs. Boddicott in England:

"I have the business of 3 plantations to transact, which requires much writing and more business and fatigue of other sorts than you can imagine. But least you should imagine it too burthensom to a girl at my early time of life, give me leave to answer you: I assure you I think myself happy..."


h t t p:// www.charlestoncitypaper .com/charleston/ charleston-museum-conserves-a-centuries-old-vestige-of-the-lowcountry /Content?oid=6486113