LONDON:
RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET,
Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty.
1855.
PRINTED BY
JOHN EDWARD TAYLOR, LITTLE QUEEN STREET,
LINCOLN’S INN FIELDS.
THESE “TRIVIAL, FOND RECORDS”
TOUCHING
Habits and Men
ARE INSCRIBED TO A GOOD MAN, OF GOOD HABITS,
TO
HENRY HOLDEN FRANKUM, ESQ.,
IN TESTIMONY OF THE ESTEEM AND REGARD ENTERTAINED FOR HIM
BY HIS VERY SINCERE FRIEND
THE AUTHOR.
CONTENTS.
| PAGE | |
| Between You and Me | [1] |
| Man, Manners, and a Story with a Moral to it | [9] |
| Adonis at Home and Abroad, Part I. | [26] |
| Adonis at Home and Abroad, Part II. | [40] |
| Remnants of Stage Dresses | [60] |
| Three Acts and an Epilogue | [67] |
| The Tiring-Bowers of Queens | [88] |
| “La Mode” in her Birthplace | [114] |
| Hats | [129] |
| Wigs and their Wearers | [141] |
| Beards and their Bearers | [158] |
| Swords | [168] |
| Gloves, B⸺s, and Buttons | [185] |
| Stockings | [200] |
| “Masks and Faces” | [204] |
| Puppets for Grown Gentlemen | [212] |
| Touching Tailors | [227] |
| Why did the Tailors choose St. William for their Patron? | [229] |
| The Tailors Measured by the Poets | [240] |
| Sir John Hawkwood, the Heroic Tailor | [261] |
| George Dörfling, the Martial Tailor | [275] |
| Admiral Hobson, the Naval Tailor | [283] |
| John Stow, the Antiquarian Tailor | [285] |
| John Speed, the Antiquarian Tailor | [296] |
| Samuel Pepys, the Official Tailor | [300] |
| Richard Ryan, the Theatrical Tailor | [309] |
| Paul Whitehead, the Poet Tailor | [315] |
| Mems. of “Merchant Tailors” | [322] |
| Chapters on Beaux | [337] |
| The Beaux of the Olden Time | [337] |
| Beau Fielding | [347] |
| Beau Nash | [356] |
| The Prince de Ligne | [370] |
| Beau Brummell | [378] |
| Doctors Ready Dressed | [395] |
| Odd Fashions | [402] |