English costume (1906) (14781535481)

Identifier: englishcostume04calt (find matches)
Title: English costume
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Calthrop, Dion Clayton, 1878-1937
Subjects: Costume -- Great Britain
Publisher: London, A. and C. Black
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellesley College Library



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GEORGE THE THIRD 69
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70 ENGLISH COSTUME first the ordinary wig, skirted coat, knee-breeches,chapeau-bras, cravat or waistcoat, of the man abouttown. I do not mean of the exquisite about town,but, if you will take it kindly, just such clothes asyou or I might have worn. In the second drawing we see a fashionable man,who might have strutted past the first fellow inthe Park. His hair is dressed in a twisted roll;he wears a tight-brimmed little hat, a frogged coat,a fringed waistcoat, striped breeches, and buckledshoes. In the third we see the dress of a Macaroni.On his absurd wig he wears a little Nevernoisehat; his cravat is tied in a bow ; his breeches areloose, and beribboned at the knee. Many of theseMacaronis wore coloured strings at the knee oftheir breeches, but the fashion died away when JackRann, Sixteen String Jack, as he was called afterthis fashion, had been hung in this make of breeches. In number four we see the development of thetail-coat and the high-buttoned waistcoat. Thetail-coat is, of co