. English costume. W - if •^ /::: •s4 *^-^. CHARLES THE SECOND called favorites ; the long locks arranged to hangaway from the face over the ears were called heart-breakers ; and the curls close tothe cheek were called confi-dents. Ladies wore cloaks withbaggy hoods for travelling, andfor the Mall the same hats asmen, loaded with feathers. I am going to leave the changein dress during this reign to thenext chapter, in which you willread how it struckMr. Pepys. Thischange separates theold world of dressfrom the new; it is the advent offrocked coats, the ancestor of our frock-coat. It finishes c
. English costume. W - if •^ /::: •s4 *^-^. CHARLES THE SECOND called favorites ; the long locks arranged to hangaway from the face over the ears were called heart-breakers ; and the curls close tothe cheek were called confi-dents. Ladies wore cloaks withbaggy hoods for travelling, andfor the Mall the same hats asmen, loaded with feathers. I am going to leave the changein dress during this reign to thenext chapter, in which you willread how it struckMr. Pepys. Thischange separates theold world of dressfrom the new; it is the advent offrocked coats, the ancestor of our frock-coat. It finishes completely the seriesof evolutions beginning with the oldtunic, running through the gown stagesto the doublet of Elizabethan times,lives in the half coat, half doublet ofCharles I., and ends in the absurd littlejackets of Charles II., who, sartorially, steps fiomthe end of the ISIiddle Ages into the New Ages,
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