Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 334
, and is definedin the notes to Gays Trivia as a Joseph or a wrap-rascal. Now Sir Walter Scott in The Heart ofMidlothian describes a wrap-rascal very distinctly asa close-buttoned jockey-coat with large metal but-tons, worn with coarse blue stockings called boot-hose because supplying the place of… … Mrs. Thomson in Riding-dress. The History of the Riding-habit 623 to wear a wrap-rascal. The London Chronicle, i~j6i,describing the dress of spruce smarts, says thatmens surtouts had four flaps on each side Hke dogsears. They had buttons and buttonholes for orna-ment only, so they were wrapped…
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