ing clear by placing dates against those drawings where
dates are valuable, hoping by this means to show the rise and fall of
certain fashions more clearly than any description would do.

It will be noticed that, for ceremony, the periwig gave place to the
tie-wig, or, in some few cases, to natural hair curled and powdered.
The older men kept to the periwig no doubt from fondness of the old
and, as they thought, more grave fashion; but, as I showed at the
beginning of the chapter, the beau and the young man, even the quite
middle-class man, wore, or had the choice of wearing, endless
varieties of false attires of hair.

The sporting man had his own idea of dress, even as to-day he has a
piquant idea in clothes, and who shall say he has not the right? A
black wig, a jockey cap with a bow at the back of it, a very
resplendent morning gown richly laced, a morning cap, and very
comfortable embroidered slippers, such mixtures of clothes in his
wardrobe--his coat, no doubt, a little over-full, but of good cloth,
his fine clothes rather over-embroidered, his tie-wig often pushed too
far back on his forehead, and so showing his cropped hair underneath.

Muffs must be remembered, as every dandy carried a muff in winter,
some big, others grotesquely small. Bath must be remembered, and the
great Beau Nash in the famous Pump-Room--as Thackeray says, so say I:
'I should like to have seen the Folly,' he says, meaning Nash. 'It was
a splendid embroidered, beruffled, snuff-boxed, red-heeled,
impertinent Folly, and knew how to make itself respected. I should
like to have seen that noble old madcap Peterborough in his boots (he
actually had the audacity to walk about Bath in boots!), with his blue
ribbon and stars, and a cabbage under each arm, and a chicken in his
hand, which he had been cheapening for his dinner.'

It was the fashion to wear new clothes on the Queen's birthday, March
1, and then the streets noted the loyal people who indulged their
extravagance or pushed a new fashion on that day.

Do not forget that no hard-and-fast rules can be laid down; a man's a
man for all his tailor tells him he is a walking fashion plate. Those
who liked short cuffs wore them, those who did not care for solitaires
did without; the height of a heel, the breadth of a buckle, the sweep
of a skirt, all lay at the taste of the owner--merely would I have you
remember the essentials.

[Illustration: {A man of the time of George II.; four style