text:  But as we hinted above we can hunt up the descent of some of these articles to times far removed--(the mantle we know came to us from the Romans)--we allude to the upper coat or wrapper; for we find that a two-sleeved cloak with enormously long sleeves by the way and a most surprisingly scanty allowance of body was worn by the dandies in the days of the rival Roses; and to go still further back we have seen a contemporary portrait of that glorious old fellow Chaucer clad in a grey wrapper that might have been made in St James's Street A