The Times, London, England, July 5, 1816

The following appearance, though not very common, is certainly not very unusual in the streets of London, viz. a man with an umbrella, with cloth gaiters and spurs, and a straw hat. A writer, however, in a French paper states, that the Parisians were perfectly thunderstruck at such an apparition, and hints that it is only fit for a grotesque habit at a masquerade.