- "Eleven new shirts.
- 4 pr laced sleves.
- 8 plane cravets.
- 4 cravets with lace
- 4 stripte wastecoats with black buttons.
- 1 flowered wastecoat.
- 3 pr silver buttons.
- 2 pr fine blew stockings.
- 1 pr fine red stockings.
- 4 white handkerchiefs.
- 2 speckled handkerchiefs.
- 3 pair gloves.
- 1 stuff coat with black buttons.
- 4 new osinbrig britches.
- 1 gray hat with a black ribbon
- 1 gray hat with a blew ribbon.
- 1 dousin black buttons.
- 1 dousin coloured buttons.
- 3 pr gold buttons.
- 1 cloth coat.
- 1 pr blew plush britches.
- 1 pr serge britches.
- 2 combs.
- 1 pr new shoes.
- Silk & thred to mend his clothes."[275]
In 1759 George Washington ordered from England for his step-son—Master Custis—six years of age, the following:
- 6 Pocket Handkerchiefs, small and fine.
- 6 pairs Gloves.
- 2 Laced Hats.
- 2 Pieces India Nankeen.
- 6 pairs fine Thread Stockings.
- 4 " Coarse " "
- 6 " Worsted " "
- 4 " Strong Shoes.
- 4 " Pumps.
- 1 Summer suit of clothes to be made of something light and thin.
- 1 piece black Hair Ribbon.
- 1 pair handsome Silver Shoe & Knee Buckles.
- 1 light duffel Cloak with Silver Frogs.[276]
Girls' Clothing.
In 1759, in the same list mentioned above for his step-son, George Washington ordered from England for his step-daughter—Miss Custis—four years of age, as follows:
- 8 pairs kid mitts.
- 4 " gloves.
- 2 " silk shoes.
- 4 " Calamanco shoes.
- 4 " leather pumps.
- 6 " fine thread stockings.
- 4 " " worsted "
- 2 Caps.
- 2 pairs Ruffles.
- 2 tuckers, bibs, and aprons if Fashionable.
- 2 Fans.
- 2 Masks.
- 2 bonnets.
- 1 Cloth Cloak.
- 1 Stiffened Coat of Fashionable silk made to packthread stays.
- 6 yards Ribbon.
- 2 Necklaces.
- 1 pair Silver Sleeve Buttons with Stones.
- 6 Pocket Handkerchiefs.[277]
"A little girl four years of age, in kid mitts, a mask, a stiffened coat, with pack-thread stays, a tucker, ruffles, bib, apron, necklace, and fan, was indeed a typical example of the fashionable follies of the day."[278]
The school girl in a fashionable boarding-school dressed extravagantly fine. One of the daughters, twelve years of age, of General Huntington of Norwich, Conn., was placed in a boarding-school in Boston. She had twelve silk gowns but her teacher wrote that the girl must have another gown of a "recently imported rich fabric," which was got for her so that she might dress "suitable to her rank and station."
Another Boston school girl, twelve years of age, in 1772, describes her own evening dress thus:
"I was dress'd in my yellow coat, black bib & apron, black feathers on my head, my past comb, & all my past garnet marquesett & jet pins, together with my silver plume—my loket, black mitts & 2 or 3 yards of blue ribbin, (black & blue is high tast) striped tucker and ruffels (not my best) & my silk shoes compleated my dress."[279]