a shawl}]

I am trusting that the drawings will supply what my words have failed
to picture, and I again--for the twenty-first time--repeat that, given
the cut and the idea of the time, the student has always to realize
that there can be no hard-and-fast rule about the fashions; with the
shape he can take liberties up to the points shown, with colour he can
do anything--patterns of the materials are obtainable, and Hogarth
will give anything required in detail.

GEORGE THE THIRD

Reigned sixty years: 1760-1820.

Born 1738. Married, 1761, Charlotte Sophia of
Mecklenburg-Strelitz.

THE MEN AND WOMEN

Throughout this long reign the changes of costume are so frequent, so
varied, and so jumbled together, that any precise account of them
would be impossible. I have endeavoured to give a leading example of
most kind of styles in the budget of drawings which goes with this
chapter.

Details concerning this reign are so numerous: Fashion books, fashion
articles in the _London Magazine_, the _St. James's Chronicle_, works
innumerable on hair-dressing, tailors' patterns--these are easily
within the reach of those who hunt the second-hand shops, or are
within reasonable distance of a library.

[Illustration: A MAN OF THE TIME OF GEORGE III. (1760-1820)

The full-skirted coat, though still worn, has given way, in general,
to the tail-coat. The waistcoat is much shorter. Black silk
knee-breeches and stockings are very general.]

Following my drawings, you will see in the first the ordinary
wig, skirted coat, knee-breeches, chapeau-bras, cravat or waistcoat,
of the man about town. I do not mean of the exquisite about town, but,
if you will take it kindly, just such clothes as you or I might have
worn.

[Illustration: {Eleven types of head-dress for women; three types
of shoe}]

In the second drawing we see a fashionable man, who might have
strutted past the first fellow in the Park. His hair is dressed in a
twisted roll; he wears a tight-brimmed little hat, a frogged coat, a
fringed waistcoat, striped breeches, and buckled shoes.

In the third we see the dress of a Macaroni. On his absurd wig he
wears a little Nevernoise hat; his cravat is tied in a bow; his
breeches are loose, and beribboned at the knee. Many of these
Macaronis wore coloured strings at the knee of their breeches, but the
fashion died away when Jack Rann, 'Sixteen String Jack,' as he was
called after this fashion