 ... a velvet cloak, two new cloth shirts, black, plain both ; a new shag gown, trimmed with gold buttons and twist, with a new hat, and silk tops for my legs, and many other things, being resolved henceforward to go like myself.  The Paisley magazine Vol 1 - Page 73Full view - About this book
 | 1913 - 916 pages
...master and mistress. The pew was 'covered all over with rosemary and baize.' There sat Pepys in his 'new shag gown, trimmed with gold buttons and twist, with a new hat, and silk tops for my legs,' and his pretty wife beside him in her 'black silk gown, which is now laced all over with black lace, as... | |
 | Frederick William Fairholt - 1860 - 638 pages
...my laving out in clothes for myself and wife : viz. for her about 12/., and for myself about 551., or thereabouts, having made myself a velvet cloak,...twist ; with a new hat, and silk tops for my legs ; two periwigs, one whereof cost me 31., and the other 40s. I have worn neither yet, but I will begin... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1866 - 528 pages
...12?., and for myself 55?., or thereabouts ; having made myself a velvet cloak, two new cloth shirts, black, plain both ; a new shag gown, trimmed with...resolved henceforward to go like myself. And also two perriwiggs, one whereof costs me 3?., and the other 40s. I have worn neither yet, but will begin next... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1873 - 798 pages
...55?., or thereabouts ; having made myself a velvet cloak, two new cloth skins, black, plain both ; n new shag gown, trimmed with gold buttons and twist, with a new hat, and silk topi for my legs, and many other things, being resolved henceforward to go like myself. And also two... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1876 - 538 pages
...thereabouts; having made myself a velvet cloake, two new cloth suits, black, plain both ; a new shagg gowne, trimmed with gold buttons and twist, with a new hat,...resolved henceforward to go like myself. And also two perriwiggs, one whereof costs me 3/. and the other 4o^. I have worn neither yet, but will begin next... | |
 | James Robinson Planché - 1879 - 528 pages
...tells us that he has spent" 5 S/., or thereabouts," in clothes for himself, amongst which he enumerates a velvet cloak, two new cloth skirts, black, plain...new shag gown, trimmed with gold buttons and twist, a new hat, and silk tops for his legs. Under the date of November 30, the same year, he records: "Put... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1877 - 512 pages
...other things modish, and a perruque ; " " Have made myself a velvet cloak, two new cloth shirts, ... a new shag gown, trimmed with gold buttons and twist,...resolved henceforward to go like myself. And also two perriwiggs, one whereof cost me 3/., and the other 40J. I have worn neither yet, but will begin next... | |
 | Eliza Cheadle - 1878 - 236 pages
...^5 5 or thereabouts. Having made myself a velvet cloak, two new cloth shirts, both black and plain ; a new shag gown, trimmed with gold buttons and twist ; with a new hat and silk tops for my legs ; two periwigs, whereof the one cost me ^3, and the other thirty shillings. These not worn yet, but... | |
 | Etiquette - 1880 - 236 pages
...^55 or thereabouts. Having made myself a velvet cloak, two new cloth shirts, both black and plain ; a new shag gown, trimmed with gold buttons and twist; with a new hat and silk tops for my legs ; two periwigs, whereof the one cost me £$, and the other thirty shillings. These not worn yet, but... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1885 - 382 pages
...thereabouts ; having made myself a velvet cloake, two new cloth suits, black, plain both ; a new shagg gowne, trimmed with gold buttons and twist, with a new hat,...resolved henceforward to go like myself. And also two perriwiggs, one whereof costs me 3/. and the other 40^. I have worn neither yet, but will begin next... | |
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