CLOAKS AND THEIR COUSINS
_“Within my memory the Ladies covered their lovely Necks with a Cloak,
this was exchanged for the Manteel; this again was succeeded by the
Pelorine; the Pelorine by the Neckatee; the Neckatee by the Capuchin,
which hath now stood its ground for a long time.”_
—“Covent Garden Journal,” May 1, 1752.
_“Mary Wallace and Clemintina Ferguson Just arrived from the Kingdom of
Ireland intend to follow the business of Mantua making and have
furnished themselves from London in patterns of the following kinds of
wear, and have fixed a correspondence so to have from thence the
earliest Fashions in Miniature. They are at Peter Clarke’s within two
doors of William Walton’s, Esq., in the Fly. Ladies and Gentlemen that
employ them may depend on being expeditiously and reasonably served in
making the following Articles, that is to say—Sacks, Negligees,
Negligee-night-gowns, plain-nightgowns, pattanlears, shepherdesses,
Roman cloaks, Cardinals, Capuchins, Dauphinesses, Shades lorrains,
Bonnets and Hives.”_
—“New York Mercury,” May, 1757.