Costumes
. . . the long applauding note.
At Quin’s high plume, or Oldfield’s petticoat.
-Epistle to Augustus, 11.
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been known and so sarcastic are a few of the contemporary
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on tile topic of actors’ costumes that a general impre
shabby dressing on the stage has developed. On a priori grounds alone.
He should remember tliat persons parading in front of an audience in tlie
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history.
b To the large and expensive wardrobe tliat John Ricli liad accumulated
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parsimonious though he was accused of being, lie steadily added
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replacements, season by season. As the 17.35-36 season
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embroidered with Silk and Silver," at L\]. Featliers and cloth
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Were secured at various times. In the 1740-41 season Rich seemed
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replenishing the stock of “Waistcoats." On 18 November he
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for "an Embroider’d Waistcoat for Mrs Woffington,” and went
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Covent Garden,” Theatre Notebook, v (Oct
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