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The Baltimore Bonaparte
04/19

The Baltimore Bonaparte

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It was a dress so small that it “would fit easily into a gentleman’s pocket.” Elizabeth Patterson (1785-1879) was one of the daring young women who imported France’s scandalous Grecian-inspired (Empire) dresses to the United States in the early 19th…