MrPunch's history of modern England . A MOST ALARMING ISWELLINGI267 J/r. PnncJis History of Modern England. uncommon; but the caricature of Colonel Sibthorp, one ofPunchs favourite butts, shows that the square shape was stillused. White waistcoats were noted as the emblem of theblameless life of the Young- England party. For the gro-tesque extravagances of fashion Oxfordundergraduates, forerunners of little , are singled out for satire, but ifwe are to believe Mr. Punch, caricaturewas unnecessary. If this was the age of ringlets forwomen, it was the age of whiskers, shortbut ambrosia
MrPunch's history of modern England . A MOST ALARMING ISWELLINGI267 J/r. PnncJis History of Modern England. uncommon; but the caricature of Colonel Sibthorp, one ofPunchs favourite butts, shows that the square shape was stillused. White waistcoats were noted as the emblem of theblameless life of the Young- England party. For the gro-tesque extravagances of fashion Oxfordundergraduates, forerunners of little , are singled out for satire, but ifwe are to believe Mr. Punch, caricaturewas unnecessary. If this was the age of ringlets forwomen, it was the age of whiskers, shortbut ambrosial, for men. The long Picca-dilly weepers of Lord Dundreary w^ere aslightly later development, but Leechsswells all wear whiskers in the fortiesand fifties. (Is not the habit immor-talized in the mid-Victorian comic song :The Captain with his w^hiskers cast a slyglance at me ?) They wore small mou-staches, too, and occasionally the head of Moustaches for theMillion, Punch, in 1847, ironically sug-gests the placing of sham moustacheson the market for the benefit of seedybucks, swell-mobs
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