The Buck Metamorphosed... river Moskva Part of a letter from

Part of a letter from John Gay to Jonathan Dean Swift

women wearing huge over-trimmed hats and and men with their hair shaved at the back but bunched and projecting under one side of their hats

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The Buck Metamorphosed... river Moskva Part of a letter from'The Buck Metamorphosed or Mr Foote in the character of the Englishman return'd from Paris', 1754. A comment on French fashions which were seen as foppish by the British. Mr Foote is possibly the English dramatist Samuel Foote. Illustration from Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century With over two hundred illustrations by George Paston [pseudonym of Emily Morse Symonds], (London, 1905).