Nearing the end of the century, as was noted by the Earl of Torrington s men in 1689, two mariners proper, were dressed in buttoned blue waistcoats, wide white breeches double checked crosswise in red, white neckcloths, black stockings and shoes and red caps . Red flowered shag breeches, buttonholes stitched with gold thread, show up in a clothing contract in 1717.
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The book is prefaced with a four-page Introduction " To All Good Housewives ", beginning " Worthy Dames, Were it not for the sake of Custom, which has made it as unfashionable for a Book to come abroad without an Introduction, as for a Man to appear at Church without a Neckcloth, or a Lady without a Hoop-petticoat, I should not have troubled you with this . " The introduction ends with " Your humble Servant, The Compiler ".
