The fondness for dress among the women [of California] is excessive and is often the ruin of many of them.


Two Years Before the Mast, 1840


The fondness for dress among the women [of California] is excessive and is often the ruin of many of them.

The fondness for dress among the women [of California] is excessive and is often the ruin of many of them.

The fondness for dress among the women [of California] is excessive and is often the ruin of many of them.

The fondness for dress among the women [of California] is excessive and is often the ruin of many of them.