The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-09-26
OLD HAIR TRUNKS AND MAHOG
ANY DESKS

tian Advocate.
As l have traced the Tads ana fol-
bles of fashionable mothers aad
daughters during the eighteenth ceG-
tury few Of the sterner sex may
have been inclined to SElile--way
not? A broader smile is coming 10
the women who learn the history CT
costumes. In nature the cock IS al
ways more richly arrayed thar The,
hen. The male Of all animals is uSC'-
ally more richly decorated by nature
than the female. The Indian chiefs
with whom the early settlers cane
into contact were the most gorgeous
ly dressed of all the members Of the
tribe. Men are at least as vain as
women and if the history Of costumes
proves anything it demonstrates tha1
men are either vainer than the other
sex in the matter Of dress or that
they had a better opportunity OF
gratifying their desire for personal
adornment. That, perhaps, IS the So
luton of the question. they had the
power and held the purse-strings. IN
the light of the history of costumes
the fact will always abide that the
dawning of better and more costly
costumes for women was also the
dawn;ng of higher and a setter civ
ilization.
The people Of every century have
been prodiga, in dress when they
could afford il, especially the men,
Personal apparel is 10 doubt more
sensible and more in accord with
good taste now than ever before IL
the worlds history. However, that
there are exceptions to. every rule
must be admitted, am writing Of the
rule and not the exceptions. 1t IS
really amusing to the student OF MS
tory to read in the press or hear from
pulpit and platform scathlng crit
cisias of the extravaganza Of bodily
attire as peculiarly applicable to the
age in which we live. Such criticisms
may find justification in. an OCCASION
al exception but not in the rule.
During the Revolution, and before,
men dressed in ga. dy colors aad
profusion of rufies. Mr.. Hancock,
prominent in governmental affairs,
had a fine purple velvet coat with
gold buttons. Patrick Henry fre-
quently dressed in brown silk preech-
es with q long yellow waiscoat gor-
geously figured and a coat with gilt
tering buttons and rafaes. Low
crowned beaver hats were IN style,
they were broad -brimmed and one or
both sidestof the hrim were turned
up and pinned with rosett, Even
economical old Doctor Franklin,
1Poor Richard" wore a velvet coat
withlnew shilling buttons and ruffes,
They all wore silk stockings with sie-
yer buckles.
Ah! here is q relic Of fashionable
attire for men that is interesting
q wig. Long, indeed, has it lain un-
disturbed among the rubbish in the
old Hair Trunk.A bald head on 3
living man, Of three-score and ten,
fringed ali around with furrisn grey
hairs exceeds it in beauty as a dia-
mond sparkles beside chip OF
quartz. It, the wig is mene1ito OF
an ancient calf, for it was made from
the hair of a calls tail. Men had
their hair shaved closely ana donned
wigs from 1880 to the latter part OF
the eighteenth century. Hawthorne
has left US partial list OF wigs, the
spencer, the brigadser, the tie the
giddy feather-top, the grave full
bottom, the Families, the major, the
albemarle, to which list Alice Morse
Earle has added the campaign, the
neck-lock, the bob, the bob major, the
lavant, the vallancy, the drop-wIg,
the buckle-wig,. the grecian fly, the
peruke, the long-tail, the bo5-tall, the
fox-tail, the cut-wig, the tuck wig,
the twist wig. the sZwatch, and the
n1accaroni toupee. The same aathor
tells US that the Campaign wig was
made very full, and curled eighteen
inches to the front. It had knots or
bobs adildo on each side with CURED
forehead"
The Families, says the same auth
or, ahad long plated tai! with a
big bow at the top of the braid and
a smaller one at the bottcna. Really
your great, great grandfather was a
picture with his Families wig puffed
at the sides and turned unaer IN