. English costume. 46 ENGLISH COSTUME. folds on either side; the back, at present, hasnot begun to stick out so heavily with for ladies are still worn. Silks and satins,brocades and fine cloths, white wigs powderingvelvet shoulders, crowds of cut-throats, elegantgentlemen, patched Aspasias, tavern swindlers,foreign adventurers, thieves, a highwayman, a foot-pad, a poor poet—and narrow streets and mud. Everywhere we see the skirted coat, the bigflapped waistcoat; even beggar boys, little pot-highurchins, are wearing some old laced waistcoat tiedwith string about their middles—apa
. English costume. 46 ENGLISH COSTUME. folds on either side; the back, at present, hasnot begun to stick out so heavily with for ladies are still worn. Silks and satins,brocades and fine cloths, white wigs powderingvelvet shoulders, crowds of cut-throats, elegantgentlemen, patched Aspasias, tavern swindlers,foreign adventurers, thieves, a highwayman, a foot-pad, a poor poet—and narrow streets and mud. Everywhere we see the skirted coat, the bigflapped waistcoat; even beggar boys, little pot-highurchins, are wearing some old laced waistcoat tiedwith string about their middles—apair of heel-trodden, buckleless shoeson their feet, more likely is a man snatched from thetripe-shop in Hanging Sword Alleyby the Kings men—a pickpocket, ahighwayman, a cut-throat in will repent his jokes on JackKetchs kitchen when he feels the lashof the whip on his naked shouldersas he screams behind the cart-tail;ladies in flowered hoops will stop to look at him,beaux wall lift their quizzing glasses
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