Rhead, G. Woolliscroft (George Woolliscroft), 1854-1920 · London : T.F. Unwin · leaf 112
were at this period worn as commonly bymen as by women, and this fashion continued fornearly a century. The beau with his muff is thus satirised in thecomic opera Lionel and Clarissa, by Isaac Bicker-staff, c. 1768 :— A coxcomb, a fop, a dainty milk-sop ;Who, essencd and dizend from bottom to… … Ilioto /)■] [Walker £■ Cockcfdl. KARL OK ROCHESTER, 164I-I7II. Knelld?-, National Portrait Gallery. I06 CHATS ON COSTUME The mantle does not appear to have particularlyexcited the wrath of the satirists. It is, indeed, soentirely reasonable a garment both for men andwomen, that it is difficult to…
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