Old gloves are cleaned, the fingers are cut off, the other big pieces stitched together and cut into waistcoats and backed by linenette.
Before this time the barristers wore coats and waistcoats of any colour under their gowns, as the undergraduates of Oxford do now.
I almost begin to pity you, and to believe that a scarcity of white waistcoats is true wisdom.
I found as prevalent a fashion in the form of the penitence, as I had left outside in the forms of the coats and waistcoats in the windows of the tailors' shops.
In the meantime, I put myself on a short allowance of bear's grease, wholly abandoned scented soap and lavender water, and sold off three waistcoats at a prodigious sacrifice, as being too luxurious for my stern career.
Occasionally other wraps are worn, and during the thunderstorm I arrived in I saw several girls with men's waistcoats buttoned round their bodies.
The old man soon begged us to hand over our coats and waistcoats to him to carry, too, and we did it; one could not refuse so little a thing to a poor old man like that; he should have had them if he had been a hundred and fifty.
Luckily we are neither of us men who would be asked to unbutton in any custom-house; nobody would fancy there was anything inside our waistcoats but skin and bone.
Footnote 23: The fashionable waistcoats of those days had animals and flowers upon them.
Kew is exceptionally favoured for the reason mentioned, but birds are also abundant where there are no hired men with red waistcoats and brass buttons to watch over their safety.
In old New England families many scraps of these rich stuffs of colonial days are preserved; some still possess ancient gowns, or coats, or waistcoats of velvet and brocade.
Their waistcoats were scarlet, and they had cassocks of cloth and canvas, instead of doublets.
Scarlet caps and green waistcoats bound with red made cheerful bits of color alongside the leather breeches and buff doublets on Salem shore.
When they advanced, carrying arms, with their great caps, their white waistcoats and gaiters, they all looked just alike; you could plainly see that it was the right arm of the Emperor which was coming.
The ladies wore dresses with immense flower patterns, and the men wore the old French coats and short breeches, and waistcoats hanging down to the thighs, as they are represented in the fashions of the time of the Republic.
The waistcoatswere universally brocades, with large flowers.
By four they were to be seen in force upon the boulevard, displaying their waistcoats and quizzing the ladies upon the marble steps of Tortoni's.
Hernani," once a scandal, had become a classic, and there was no further need of red waistcoats and furious claques.
They laughed loudly at their old-fashioned attire--the wide-skirted coats and flapped waistcoats of the young men and the ancient cap and gown of the blooming girl.
Contrasting with these were one or two members of council, richly dressed in the white wigs, the embroidered waistcoats and other magnificence of the time, and making a somewhat ostentatious display of courtier-like ceremonial.
Among so many rather sombre uniforms the red waistcoats of the small English detachment stand out sharply, and their reflections in the lake are like cruel and bloody trails.
I came away for three days and have remained almost a month, and am wearing shirts and waistcoatsborrowed here and there from my various army friends.
Two waistcoats and a Norfolk jacket mean well, but are not adapted to the purpose.
Armload of semi-detached waistcoatsand pantaloons; very suggestive, but not instantly available.
He made the most wonderful waistcoats for all the rich merchants of Gloucester, and for all the fine gentlemen of the country round.
I would only have them in establishments, with strait-waistcoats on, and an experienced and humane physician to reduce them by means of--those measures which are never known to fail.
I have myself worn those silk waistcoats and that silver lace," he said with a sigh.
The junior clerk's doing the work for me; and he's to have one of my dress-waistcoats to compensate him for the trouble.
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