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Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) · Chapter 11Chapter V
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The Evolution of Coats and Waistcoats
This day the King began to put on his vest; and I did see several persons of the House of Lords and Commons too, great courtiers who are in it, being a long cassock close to the body, of long cloth, pinked with white silk under it, and a coat over it, and the legs ruffled with white ribbon like a pigeon’s leg; and upon the whole I wish the King may keep it, for it is a very fine and handsome garment. —“Diary,” SAMUEL PEPYS, October 8, 1666. Fashion then was counted a disease and horses died of it. —“The Gulls Hornbook,” ANDREW DEKKER, 1609.