CONTENTS.

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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