 ... 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
 | 1889 - 654 pages
...which, it is said," he adds, " is out of fashion." He spends ^55, or thereabouts, upon new clothes—" a velvet cloak, two new cloth skirts, black, plain...buttons and twist ; with a new hat, and silk tops for his legs." He tells of his " coloured cloth suit," of his " best black suit trimmed with scarlet ribbons,... | |
 | Lady Gertrude Elizabeth Campbell - 1893 - 254 pages
...^"sS 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... | |
 | Frederick William Fairholt, Harold Arthur Lee-Dillon Dillon (17th Viscount) - 1896 - 514 pages
...and for myself about .£55, or thereabout* having made myself a velvet cloak, two new cloth skirtt black, plain both ; a new shag gown, trimmed with...twist ; with a new hat, and silk tops for my legs ; two periwigs, one whereof cost me .£3, and the other 40s. I have worn neither yet, but I will begin... | |
 | Lionel Strachey - 1906 - 318 pages
...myself and wife; viz., for her about £12 and for myself £55, or thereabouts ; having had made for myself a velvet cloak, two new cloth skirts, black,...resolved henceforward to go like myself. And also two perriwigs, one whereof costs me £3 and the other 40*. I have worn neither yet, but will begin next... | |
 | Esther Meynell - 1909 - 396 pages
...arisen from my layings-out in clothes for myself and wife ; viz. for her about £12 and for myself ^55, or thereabouts : having made myself a velvet cloak,...things, being resolved henceforward to go like myself" — all the while apparently quite unconscious of the startling difference between his " layings-out... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1910 - 482 pages
...;£i2, and for myself ^S5, 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... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1910 - 426 pages
...; having made myself a velvet cloake, two new cloth suits, black, plain both ; a new shagg gowne,1 trimmed with gold buttons and twist, with a new hat,...resolved henceforward to go like myself. And also perriwiggs, one whereof cost me .£3, and the other 4Or. I have worn neither yet, but will begin next... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1906 - 688 pages
..." was then after dinner. 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 403. I have worn neither yet, but will begin next... | |
 | 1913 - 880 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... | |
 | George Park Fisher, George Burton Adams, Henry Walcott Farnam, Arthur Twining Hadley, John Christopher Schwab, William Fremont Blackman, Edward Gaylord Bourne, Irving Fisher, Henry Crosby Emery, Wilbur Lucius Cross - 1914 - 452 pages
...to-day with wonder not unmixed with awe of "a velvet cloak, two new cloth suits, ... a new shagg gowne trimmed with gold buttons and twist, with a new hat and silk tops for my legs," — all, as it were, in one mouthful. It is no wonder that his clothes cost some five times those of... | |
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