Gentleman's Magazine Grubstreet Journal (1731) [ Concepts ]
… Grubstreet Journal, Feb. 11. No. 58. By the fashion, figure, and colour of the cloaths, we may form a judgment of the sentiments and qualities of the mind. … which our Journalist gives his readers an abridgment. The author of it dissuades his countrymen from the use of French fashions, since we have a right, power, and genius to supply ourselves. The imitation of modes, he says, is a tribute … thro ' many extravagant varieties; but when a war became necessary with France, we disus'd their exotick modes, and our fashions were commodious and graceful. Beauty, he reckons, as the next quality in directing the modes, which he describes …
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