. English costume. (^ GEORGE THE SECOND 65 of their new uniform. So did the navy go intoblue and white. The poorer classes were not. of course, dressedin hooped skirts, but the bodice and gown overthe petticoat, the apron, and the turned back cuffto the short sleeve were worn by all. The orangewench laced her gownneatly, and wore awhite cloth tied overher head ; about hershoulders she wore akerchief of white, andoften a plain frill oflinen at her were blue can-vas, striped dimity,flannel, and ticken forthe humble ; for the rich, lustrings, satins, Padesois, velvets, damasks,fans a
. English costume. (^ GEORGE THE SECOND 65 of their new uniform. So did the navy go intoblue and white. The poorer classes were not. of course, dressedin hooped skirts, but the bodice and gown overthe petticoat, the apron, and the turned back cuffto the short sleeve were worn by all. The orangewench laced her gownneatly, and wore awhite cloth tied overher head ; about hershoulders she wore akerchief of white, andoften a plain frill oflinen at her were blue can-vas, striped dimity,flannel, and ticken forthe humble ; for the rich, lustrings, satins, Padesois, velvets, damasks,fans and I^eghorn hats, bands of Valenciennesand Point de Dunquerque—these might be boughtof Mrs. Holt, whose card Hogarth engraved, atthe Two Olive Posts in the Broad part of theStrand. Seventeen hundred and fifty-five saw the one VOL. IV. 9. G6 ENGLISH COSTUME horse chairs introduced from France, calledcabriolets, the first of our own extraordinarywild-looking conveyances contrived for the niini-mum of comfort and the maximum of invention captivated the hearts of both menand women. The men painted cabriolets ontheir waistcoats, they embroidered them on theirstockings, they cut them out in black silk andpatched their cheeks with them, horse and all;/,the women began to take up, a little later, thecabriolet caps with round sides like linen wheels,and later still, at the very end of the reign, therebegan a craze for such head-dresses—post-chaises,chairs and chairmen, even waggons, and this crazegrew and grew, and hair grew—in wigs—to meetthe cry for hair and straw men-of-war, for loadsof hay, for birds of paradise, for goodness knowswhat forms of utter absurdity, all of which I putdown to the introduction of the cab. I think that I can best describe the lady ofthis day as a swollen, skirted figure with a pi
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