Materials were linen suits, nankeen, cord, moleskin, wool or silk jersey, kersey-mere, velvet, broadcloth, plaids and striped materials, chintz for dressing gowns, and beaver, straw or felt for hats.

"The company of women of fashion will improve your manners, though not your understanding; and that complaisance and politeness, which are so useful in men’s company, can only be acquired in women’s."

~ Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773), British statesman, in a letter to his son, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl, Esq.

"Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one’s own, it is always twenty times better."

~ Margaret Oliphant (1828–1897), British novelist, historian.