Note 285 — No. 95.

See the letter from Isaac Bickerstaff in No. 246, and No. 151. In Lillie's "Letters sent to the Tatler and Spectator," i. 210-211, there is a letter dated Jan. 21, 1712, referring to "the unaccountable custom that for some time has prevailed among our fashionable gentlemen, of coming abroad in this cold, unseasonable weather with their breasts and bodies almost quite naked, by which means they have procured such terrible coughs." The object here was to display the shirt; old men followed the fashion in the hope of seeming young.