text:  But it is rather libellous on the memory of this man of taste to suppose that he at all resembled in this important matter the strutting display which we have seen in later times and which irresistibly strikes the beholder with surprise that any man capable of seeing himself in the glass could exhibit so strong a temptation to laughter; while to the more knowing in the affairs of costume it betrays instantly the secret that the exhibitor is simply a walking placard for a tailor struggling for employment and supplying the performer on the occasion with a wardrobe for the purpose