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puffed by advertisement, I have found nothing so 

 good for a light summer jacket as what is made 

 at Manchester by the name of satteen, jeanet, or 

 florentiue, which is printed on each side, in imitation 

 of cloth. This stuff far surpasses the others for 

 lightness, comfort, durability, and every thing that 

 can be required for warm weather ; but, as there is 

 no particular interest in making it (rather the re- 

 verse), it is not every where very easily procured ; so 

 that your tailor would probably be obliged to order 

 it, in doing which he cannot choose it of too good a 

 quality. 



With regard to the other part of the dress, but 

 few persons appear to know what is really comfort- 

 able, and I may, therefore, appear singular for con- 

 sidering as most ttncom/brtable, that which is com- 

 _rnonly, and was till of late years, universally worn : 

 I mean shoe* and gaiters. To say nothing of being 

 tormented with two or three dozen of buttons every 

 morning, and having your ankles and knees in a 

 state of confinement through a hard day's exercise, it 

 need only be observed, that, if you step in the least 

 puddle, you are wet ; if you tread in moist ground, 

 your shoe is pulled down at heel, and you are often 

 liable to be annoyed by your shoes untying, and 

 thorns and bits of stick, &c., getting into them, or 

 between the buttons of your gaiters. How much 

 more comfortable, then, is the dress here recom- 

 mended ! With lambswool stockings and flannel 

 drawers, put on a pair of overall-boots, and then draw 



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