Journal des Luxus und der Moden 1786, Volume I, Part 36

English gentleman, dressed in the latest fashion. According to the accompanying text, copied from a London model to show that fashion is also exaggerated in England (as in France and Germany). The young man wears a jockey hat with hatband and buckle on his frizzed hair. He is dressed in a striped frock coat with a high collar and silver buttons over a waistcoat and knee breeches of cashmere. Striped stockings; shoes with large oval buckles. Watch on a chain. Walking stick in hand. Print from the fashion magazine Journal des Luxus und der Moden, published by Friedrich Justin Bertuch and Georg Melchior Kraus, Weimar, 1786-1826.