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blue ties at knee; striped stockings and shoes; a watch and watch-chain hanging at both sides; lace frills at wrist and neck; large necktie; cocked hat.

IRISH CAR DRIVER. Green coat patched with cloth, brass buttons; brocaded waistcoat; drab breeches with patches; high collar, and red tie; blue darned stockings; leather shoes; hat trimmed with green and sprigs of shamrock.

ITALIAN. Stockings crossed over with coloured ribbon; blue cloth breeches, buckled at the side; a leather waistcoat fastened with silver, steel or leather buttons, and cut low and straight, showing the shirt; a short jacket ordered with gold, and a pointed hat with ribbons; coins and amulets. The Pifferari in addition, have a long brown caped cloak, and carry their musical pipes. The Italian Fishermen of Naples and Barri, Masaniello, &c., are represented with silk tights, striped trousers rolled up well over the knee; a shirt of the same, open at the neck to show gold charms; ear-rings in the ears; a red or brown cap; and a brown jacket slung from the shoulders; a scarf round waist.

JACK HORNER. Blue breeches; a long waistcoat; long-skirted red coat, with gold buttons down the front, and on the wide turn-back cuffs and pockets; a black tricorn hat bordered with gold braid; a plum dangling from the watch-chain.

JACK (JACK AND JILL). Smock frock and round felt hat. Or, breeches and long waistcoat, long-skirted coat of velvet, cambric shirt, velvet cape, ruff at throat, red rosette on each cuff and corner of coat. (See Jill.)

JAMES EDWARD, PRINCE, SON OF JAMES II. (after N. de Largilliere). He died in Paris, 1746. The costume of the Prince of Wales resembles the one worn by courtiers towards the end of Charles II's reign. Wig formally curled, and no longer flowing; three-corned hat, low in the crown and wide in the brim, with feather edging; a neckcloth or cravat of Brussels or Flanders lace, tied in a knot under the chin, the ends hanging down square; short doublet or coat of dark green, blue, or drab cloth, with buttons and buttonholes all down the front, the cuffs and pockets similarly adorned; the skirts of the coat terminating above the knees, and its sleeves reaching to the elbows, with shirt sleeves bulging out, ruffed and adorned