berthas

My friends are in this picture and the dresses on each end have berthas as well.

Dress A Day Research Challenge - A Dress A Day 2006

I must have spent so much time building big berthas and clone commanders and all the rest of it.

EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Need your help again…Games that should get more attention. 2005

Low necks and lace berthas, made fashionable because of their adoption by Miss Lane, were worn almost universally, either with open sleeves revealing inner ones of filmy lace, or sleeves of the shortest possible form, allowing the rounded length of a pretty arm to be seen in its perfection.

A belle of the fifties : memoirs of Mrs. Clay, of Alabama, covering social and political life in Washington and the South, 1853-66, 1905

Last spring the dresses were all made with lace berthas, and Smith was read; this year the butterfly capes are worn, and Jones is the favorite author.

Literature and Life (Complete) William Dean Howells 1878

Last spring the dresses were all made with lace berthas, and Smith was read; this year the butterfly capes are worn, and Jones is the favorite author.

The Man of Letters as a Man of Business William Dean Howells 1878

Last spring the dresses were all made with lace berthas, and Smith was read; this year the butterfly capes are worn, and Jones is the favorite author.

The Man of Letters as a Man of Business William Dean Howells 1878

-- A dress, 3 bodies, 3 berthas, a waistband, a pair of cuffs, a feather, an ornament for the hair, some artificial flowers, some whalebone, and some pieces of ribbon.

The Life of Trust: Being a Narrative of the Lord's Dealings With George Müller George M��ller 1851

Perhaps the most curious of all the Thymelaceae is the celebrated Lagetta, or lace-bark tree of Jamaica; out of which the ladies of that island know how to manufacture cuffs, collars, and berthas, that, when cut into the proper shapes, and bleached to a perfect whiteness, have all the appearance of real lace!

The Cliff Climbers A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters" Mayne Reid 1850