Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1886-12-15

the coat OF green velvet Inc gen.
tleman who lost the watch, we are also
told wears a light-colorcd periwig,
with gray hat and green taffety
ribbon around It, and sword-knot of
the same"
A boy of fifteen, who ran away from
home was described in an English pa
per of 1850, as wearing a suit OF sad
colored cloth. lined with lowered silk,
the ground buff-color and tho flowers
green; waist-coat OF the same silk, a
pair of silk stockings of sad color; sad
colored cloth cap turned up with sables
and laced down the seams with gold
braid" These Enthusiastically arrayed
youths seemed to have been addicted
to running away, for in 1858, we find
another, John Hall. advertised for.
He was described as wearing sad
colored coat with black buttons, white
sleeves. purple breeches, black gloves,
fringed, and black hat with silver
twisted hst-band." No wonder he ran
away when they dressed him in this
style.
In Queen Anne's reign, scarlet was
the popular color for gentlemen's
cloaks, and the wealthy had gold but
tons on them. In liza, we read of a
Mr.. Osheal, OF London, who was
robbed of "a scarlet cloth suit laced
with broad gold lace, and lined and
faced with blue, fine cinnamon-cloth
suit, with plate buttons; waist-coat
fringed with silk fringe of the same
color; a rich, yellow-fowered satin
morning-gown, lined with cherry-col-
ored satin, and pocket on the right
side" In journal kept by Mr..
Mist, in 1929, the beau of the period,
is thus described: Fine linen shirt, the
ruffles and bosom of Mechlin lace; a
small wig, with an enormous queue;
his coat we'll garnished with lace; black
velvet breaches; red heels to his shoes,
and gold clocks to his stockings; his
hat beneath his arm, and himself we'll
scented" A beau of 1851 is described
as wearing black velvet coat, a green
and silver waist-coat, yellow velvet
breaches, and blue stockings" making
a costume more varied than harmoni-
Gus in color.
In France, equally gay attire was
worn. Louis lie Debonnaire wore busk-
ms of gold. The Duke of Orleans,
brother of Charles VI, wore a robo
embroidered in pearls, those OH his
sleeve forming the words of a song
The Kings robes were richly orna.
mentcd with gems, and one was COW
cred with golden swallows. holding in
their bcaIs golden basins. The gen.
tlemen of the court of Charles TX.
wore scarlet doublets with white sleeves
slashed with blue, trunk-hose and
stockings of blue, and red cloaks lined
with satin and ermine.
In America, too, the costume was
often very gay. In ITO, the gentle
men wore colored velvet brooches,
vests of silk and satin, embroidered in
gold and silver, with buttons of gold or
silk worked in pearls; silk stockings,
knee and shoe buckles and cooked hats.
President Hancock wore, rs President
of the first Congress, scarlet coat and
cooked hat with cockade.
Thomas Jefferson sometimes wore q
white cloth coat, scarlet brooches and
vest, a cooked hat, buckles on his
ch anI white sill hoco
The hats worn at various periods
were all manner of shapes and orna-
menmtion. They were frequently
decked out with feathers, flowers, rib
bons and gems. Cooked hats were
laced with gold and adorned with rcd,
white and black feathers.
Gentlemen used muffs for their
hands, and noses, too, If Sulfyf Is to be
believed, who says that on one occa-
sion he found the Duke of Movers with
his hands and his nose in muff. 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." Nuf1's were used in
England by gentleme n prior to 100,
and were made of leopard's skin. The
Duke of Queonsberry, known as "old
O." used muff, and visitor to "old
Par'' 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 is
Not IA little regarded at all public places,
For ride In n chair with my hands in q
mum,
And l have bought silk coat and EN-.
broidercd the cuff."
A writer of 1900, in alluding to the
fashion of gentlemen using muffs,
says:
"such an article was much In vogucs
Which, when II was not on the arm sus- |
tanned,
Hung pendant by sllken ribbon loop,
From buttons of tho coat Of well.dressed |
beaux."
Carriers were an important part of q |
gentleman's dress, and we're worn out
side. In tho time Of James !. they
were of gold, silver, satin and velvet,
fringed with gold. At one period, the |
carriers were of some delicate white |
fabric, and were worn like a scarf,
around the knee, the ends being
trimmed with rich point lace.
Boots wcrc not the unobtrusiye |
things that they now are. At one
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 n rams