ADDITIONAL NOVELTIES IN GENTLEMEN'S DRESSES FOR MARCH 1829. " mut/ la speculum."
TIIE hair is dyed of a brighter sea-green than last month, and combed up in front a-la-cockatoo. It is cut quite close at the sides. The coat is of Bourbon white, made long in the waist, and buttoning all down in front with red buttons of about the size of breakfast saucers, which give it a very handsome appearance. The buttons are not of the sugar-loaf form, but flat, like the wearers. The sleeves are nearly two feet longer than the hands, which they entirely cover, flapping about in an easy d/gage mariner, which is highly becoming. The cravat is superseded by a frill thirty inches wide, which falls down over the vest. Many gentlemen of fashion in the evening wear half-moons painted on their cheeks in fancy colours. The culottes are made rather wide, tying with scarlet strings at the knee, which is now worn at precisely the middle of the calf. The pockets are extraordinarily capacious, and the holes extend from the hip all down the thigh. The stockings are generally white, with green clocks of a very large and showy pattern. The shoes are red, and turn up at the toe about two inches, with a gay flourish. This style of parure, which is extremely fashionable, is called the mode 1'1-la-Grimaldi, after the name of a celebrated exquisite once well known in the gay neighbourhood of Covent Garden, and at the Wells of Sadler.
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