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In order to give the Molière waistcoat the really fashionable stamp, it must have a godrooned collar, made of several rows of lace, a frill of the same, and ruffles reaching to the knuckles.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. by