Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 202, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1920 — DANDIES OF COLONIAL TIMES [ARTICLE]

DANDIES OF COLONIAL TIMES

Women in the Country’s Early History Evidently Had No Monopoly of “Fine Feathers.” The gentlemen of a long-past day were not less particular in regard t® their costume than are their successors of the present time, a fact that is manifest from certain records of colonial times. Governor Hutchinson’s order for clothes, sent to London to be filled, is a telltale and instructive paper. We may suppose the garments to have arrived by the time of the Boston niassacre, and can easily guess how the handsome man of fifty-nine must have looked as he schemed and argued against his rebellious people. “Octobers. 1767. To Mr.'Peter Leitch: ‘‘l desire to have* you send me a blue cloth waistcoat trimmed with the same color lined, the skirts and facings with effigeen, and the body linnen to match the last blue cloath I had from you two undpr-wa Istcoats or camisols of warm swahsdown. without sleeves faced with some cheap silk or shagg. A suit of deaths full-trimmed, the- cioath something like the only more of a gray mixture, gold buttons and hole, but little wadding lined with effigeen. “I like a wrought or flowered or embroidered hole something though not exactly like the hole upon the cloaths of which the pattern is incldsed; or if frogs are worn, I think they look well on the coat; but if it be quite irregular, I would have neither one nor the other, but such a hole and button as are worn. I know a laced coat is more the mode, but this is too gay for me. “A pair of wosted breeches to match the color, and a pair of black velvet breeches, the breeches with leather linings. Let them come by the first ship. “P. S. If there be no opportunity before February, omit the camisols. and send a greene waistcoat, the forebodies a strong corded silk —not the cbrduasoy, but looks something like it — the sleeves and bodies sagathee or other thin stuff, body lined wdth linnen, skirts silk. My last cloath* were rather small,in the armholes, but the alterations .must be little, next to nothing.”—Philadelphia Record.