The town of Roxbury: its memorable persons and places, its history and antiquities, with numerous illustrations of its old landmarks and noted personages . ze of a half-dollar; vests also with-out collars, but very long, having graceful, pendulous lappetpockets ; shirts with bosoms and wrist-ruffles, and with goldor silver buckles at the wrist united by a link : the neckclothor scarf of fine linen or figured stuff or embroidered, theends hanging loosely. The smallclothes reached below theknees, where they were ornamented with silver buckles ofliberal size ; the legs were covered with gray stoc
The town of Roxbury: its memorable persons and places, its history and antiquities, with numerous illustrations of its old landmarks and noted personages . ze of a half-dollar; vests also with-out collars, but very long, having graceful, pendulous lappetpockets ; shirts with bosoms and wrist-ruffles, and with goldor silver buckles at the wrist united by a link : the neckclothor scarf of fine linen or figured stuff or embroidered, theends hanging loosely. The smallclothes reached below theknees, where they were ornamented with silver buckles ofliberal size ; the legs were covered with gray stockings, andthe feet with shoes ornamented with straps and silver buckles. Square-toed shoes kept their footing from 1689 to the round or peaked toe, originally worn by our emi-grant ancestors, came again into fashion. A stricture on thedress of the ladies in 1732 speaks of k- shoe-toes pointed tothe heavens, in imitation of the Laplanders, with buckles ofa harness size. As early as 1689 ladies wore dress shoesof silk and satin, richly embroidered. In 1716 laced shoesfor women and children are advertised in a Boston paper. 54 DRESS OF A CAVALIER. Until 1714 the heels were worn very high. Soon after thesettlement, the fashionables of both sexes had large knots or roses of ribbon, generally green, on theinstep of their shoes. Boots were sel-dom worn except by military men. any person not worth £200, wear-ing great boots, was subject to a were as large at the top as thebrim of a hat. and our thrifty sires veryproperly objected to such a waste ofleather. Buskins, a kind of half-boot,worn two centuries ago, are mentionedin the inventory of Thomas Lamb, ofRoxburv. The usual mode of wearing the hairwas in the close-cropped fashion of theRoundheads: but there were alwaysthose who wore their hair long as a matter of taste, indefiance of the straitlaced brethren. A law against this•• feminine protexity was passed as early as 1049, and wasstrenuously
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