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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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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 course, son to the frock-coat, theskirts of which, being inconvenient for riding, hadfirst been buttoned back and then cut back togive more play.
A WOMAN OF THE TIME OF GEORGE III. (1760—1820) In the earlier half of the reign. Notice her sackdress over a satin dress, and the white, elaborately made skirt. Also the big cap and the curls of white wig.
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r GEORGE THE THIRD 71 In the fifth drawing we see the double-breastedcut-away coat. Number six is but a further tail-coat design. Number seven shows how different were thestyles at one time. Indeed, except for theMacaroni and other extreme fashions, the entirebudget of men as shown might have formed acrowd in the Park on one day about twenty yearsbefore the end of the reign. There would not bemuch powdered hair after 1795, but a few exampleswould remain. A distinct change is shown in the eighth draw-ing of the long-tailed, full coat, the broad hat, thehair powdered, but not tied. Number nine is another example of the samestyle. The tenth drawing shows the kind of hat weassociate with Napoleon, and, in fact, very Napo-leonic garments. In eleven we have a distinct change in theappearance of English dress. The gentleman isa Zebra, and is so-caUed from his striped clothes.He is, of course, in the extreme of fashion, whichdid not last for long; but it shows a tendencytowards later Georgian

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