The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-11-13

mentation. They were frequently
decked out with feathers, flowers, rib
bons and gems. Cooked hats were
laced with gold and adorned with red'
white and black feathers.
Gentlemen used muffs for their
hands, and noses, too, if Sully is to be
believed, who says that on one occa-
sion he found the DuSe of Nevers with
his hands and his nose in a muf. The
Earl of March wrote to his friend
George Selwyn. who was in Paris;
1.-THE muff Sent me by the Duke Of
Richmond l like prodigiously, vastly
better than if it had been tigre or of
any glaring color; several are now
making after it." Muffs were used in
England by gentlemen prior to i7Oo'
| and were made of leopard's skin. Tho
Duke of Queensberry. known as 'old
o. used a mufi, and a visitor to ''old
Parr" found him sitting with his hands
in a muff. A country beau, writing to
his mother. says:
.Thank heaven! Of late, my dear mother. my
face 10
Not-a little regarded at all public places,
For l ride In q chair with my hands In q
nun,
And l have bought ii silk coat and ON.
broidered the cuff
A writer Of 1900, in alluding to the
fashion of gentlemen using muffs,
says:
"Such an article was much in vOgueS:
Which, when 1t was not on the arm sus.
tanned,
Hung pendant by a S ken ribbon loop.
From buttons Of the coat of well.dressed
beaux."
Carriers were an important part OF a
gentleman's dress, and were worn out
side. In the time of James l. they
were of gold, silver, satin and velvet,
fringed with gold. AT II period, the
garters we're of some delicate white
fabric, and were worn like a scarf,
around the knee, the ends being
trimmed with rich point lace.
Boots were not the unobtrusive
things that they now are. At n
period the toes were so long that they
had to be chained to the knees, and in
the rcigns of Rufus and Henry l., the
peaked toes sometimes terminated in a
scorpions tail. while others were
stuffed and curled round like q rams
horn. In Queen Elizabeth's reign,
boots had immense tops of fine linen,
embroidered IN gold, silver, or colored
silk, in figures of animals and birds;
and at one period they were trimmed
with costly point lace. Cling Mars
left, at his death. three hundred pairs
of these boots. Spanish leather shoes,
laced with gold, were fashionable at
one time, and so were shoes ornament
ed with immense bows Of ribbon or
lace rosettes. Charles II. changed the
wearing of shoe-strings for buckles,
which were OF very large dimensions
and set with precious stones.
The hair received great attention,
and from time To time va worn in va
rious ways. We are told that even the
Spartans, on the eve of battle, arranged
their hair carefully. The Athenians
wore their hair very long, curled and
tied on the top of their head in a knot
fastened by a hair-pin, or arranged
along the forehead with golden grass.
hoppers. The Greeks and the Romans.
even when in the army, perfume their
hair. J~osephus tells us that the horse
men belonging to Solomon powdered
their hair with gold dust; and tradi-
ton hands down the Emperor Com
modus in a wig covered with gold dust.
The Able Delille dressed his hair with
rose-colorcd powder. During the
reign Of Stephen, the young gentlemen
wore their hair SO long that they re-
semblcd women, adding artificial hair
to lengthcn that which nature gave
them. In the reign of John. the gen.
tlemen curled their hair with crisping.
irons and bound it with ribbons; and
in the time of Richard III. the hair
was sometimes parted in the middle
and curlcd at the sides, the ringlets
being confined with a jewcled band.
At various periods jewelry was much
worn by gentlemen. The Greeks and
Romans wore bracelets, these being
sometimes awards for valor. Neck
laccs. too. were worn, especially
by the Egyptians and Pcrsians. The
Britons wore necklaces of twisted wire,
these being a symbol Of command. In
the reign of Henry w.. OF England, n
collar appeared. called The Collar of
S. 81 This was a golden band, on
which the letter S was engraved in
several places. and which was WORT by