Who flaunts about in borrowed lace."
Jenyns. "The Modern Fine Lady."
Crown. Sir Courtly Nice, or It Cannot Be, a Comedy. 1731.
"1748. Ruffles of twelve pounds a yard."—Apology for Mrs. T. C. Philips. 1748.
Lace, however, might be had at a more reasonable rate:—
"'I have a fine lac'd suit of pinners,' says Mrs. Thomas, 'that was my great-grandmother's! that has been worn but twice these forty years, and my mother told me cost almost four pounds when it was new, and reaches down hither.'"—"Miss Lucy in Town." Fielding.