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Lord Chesterfield’s Advice to His Son, On Men and Manners: or, A New System of Education, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, 1815 …we should be as easy and natural as if we had no clothes on at all.   High-res

Lord Chesterfield’s Advice to His Son, On Men and Manners: or, A New System of Education, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, 1815

…we should be as easy and natural as if we had no clothes on at all.

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...   High-res

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.