 | Sir James Porter - 1854 - 470 sider
...commonly wear two or more waistcoats, and often a quilted coatee, with wide drawers, thick waist girdles, and various other portions of ordinary attire under the jacket and trowsers.* * White. ' Three Yean ia Constantinople,' Nor is the condition of some of the officers much better,... | |
 | sir James Porter - 1854 - 510 sider
...commonly wear two or more waistcoats, and often a quilted coatee, with wide drawers, thick waist girdles, and various other portions of ordinary attire under the jacket and trowsers.* * White. ' Three Yeara in Constantinople.' Nor is the condition of some of the officers much better,... | |
 | Moses Edrehi - 1855 - 644 sider
...suitable to local tastes, faith, and climate ; having no good models before them, and no esprit du corps — this latter virtue having perished with...combined with other ill-founded notions, induced the Seraskier to reject this useful modification. The next articles that attract notice in Long Market... | |
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... slovenly when abandoned to themselves, which is generally the case; for, provided the regulation uniform appear outside, no trouble is taken to ascertain the quantity of clothing underneath. Thus they commonly wear two or more waistcoats, and often... 