Gentleman's Magazine Grubstreet Journal (1731) [ Concepts ]
… over ' em, we very complaisantly pursued the French 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 … likeness, or figure among the French to the beautiful of either kind, which he represents as the symbol of capering, with the knees touching, and the ankles a foot and a half distant from one another, with a broad codebeck, an immense peruke, and an old lac'd coat. A third quality which influences the modes, is a …
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