Regency Fashion: Gentleman’s Fashion Notes for 1821

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From The Tailor’s Friendly Instructor (1822)

Gentlemen's Fashions GENTLEMEN's coats are undergoing a gradual change Lóng waists short skirts high collars and full capes are the true signs of an Exquisite but we must confess the very best built coat on these curious principles of taste can add usothing to the elegance of a man's appearance We have observed with pleasure several of the most distinguished characters in the Haut Ton once more take into their favour the neglected pantaloons and long boots

Those men which Nature has provided with a fine turned leg and a graceful person would do well to lay the clumsy cloth trowsers aside until they are going on journeysos and wear that which best harmonises with the natural sym metry of the human form Waistcoats are worn now without any foolish folding of the collar but still angled in the front and lightening off by the waist A new pattern has come out which is an attempt at painting a waistcoat but we are sure it cannot be patronized by true taste Black cravats are getting stale and we must say that hats are so harlequined that we wish some man of taste would fix a proper fashion Lord Petersham's is outré and the Duke of Devonshire's is like a cheesemonger's

These fashion notes for men appeared in the Bon Ton Magazine, May 1821.

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