. English costume. puffed at the sides and powdered,getting ready to develop again into a queer figure GEORGE THE SECOND 67 under a tower of hair, but that waits for thenext reign. One cannot do better than go to Hogarths printsand pictures — wonderfulrecords of this time—onepicture especially, Tastein High Life, being a finerecord of the clothes of1742; here you will seethe panier and the sacque,the monstrous muff, thehuge hoop, the long-tailedwig, the black boy and themonkey. In the Noon ofthe Four Parts of the Day there are clothes againsatirized. I am trusting that the drawings will supply
. English costume. puffed at the sides and powdered,getting ready to develop again into a queer figure GEORGE THE SECOND 67 under a tower of hair, but that waits for thenext reign. One cannot do better than go to Hogarths printsand pictures — wonderfulrecords of this time—onepicture especially, Tastein High Life, being a finerecord of the clothes of1742; here you will seethe panier and the sacque,the monstrous muff, thehuge hoop, the long-tailedwig, the black boy and themonkey. In the Noon ofthe Four Parts of the Day there are clothes againsatirized. I am trusting that the drawings will supply whatmy words have failed to picture, and I again—for thetwenty-first time—repeat that, given the cut and theidea of the time, the student has always to realizethat there can be no hard-and-fast rule about thefashions; with the shape he can take liberties upto the points shown, with colour he can do anything— patterns of the materials are obtainable, andHogarth will give anything required in detail. 9—2. GEORGE THE THIRD Reigned sixty : 1760— 1738. * Married, 1761, Charlotte Sophiaof Mecklenburg-Strelitz. THE MEN AND WOMEN Throughout this long reign the changes of cos-tume are so frequent, so varied, and so jumbledtogether, that any precise account of them wouldbe impossible. I have endeavoured to give aleading example of most kind of styles in thebudget of drawings which goes with this chapter. Details concerning this reign are so numerous:Fashion books, fashion articles in the London3Iagazi7ie, the jSL Jamess Chronicle, works in-numerable on hair-dressing, tailors patterns—theseare easily within the reach of those who hunt thesecond-hand shops, or are within reasonable distanceof a library. Following my drawings, you will see in the 68 A MAN OF THE TIME OF GEORGE III.(17603—1820) The full-skirted coat, though still worn, has givenway, in general, to the tail-coat. The waistcoat ismuch shorter. Black silk knee-breeches and stockingsare very ge
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