Word: vests
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Other references: Vest in Record, Jan. 10, 1888, pp. 314-320; Hawley in Boston Herald...
...VILA, Captain.LOST. - Left at Leavitt & Pierce's last Wednesday afternoon a parcel containing a jacket and vest. The person who has unintentionally taken it will please return it to the desk at Leavitt & Pierce...
...Junior Class held next place in the parade. Their costume was the most effective of the class uniforms: a red coat with blue facings, buff vest crossed by a blue belt, buff knee-breeches and black hose, and a black and buff cocked...
...illustrious sons of '89 wore a nondescript costume of grey cut-away plug hat, white vest, buff trousers and white gaiters, which a transparency explained was that of a "dude...
...fastening them together. This crib is held in the palm of the hand and worked by the thumb, the thin paper being easily worked from one roll to the other as occasion demands. Cuffs are also marked with hieroglyphics, and the part of the shirt bosom covered by the vest is daintly inscribed with notes, of value only to the owner. Other paper cribs are worn in the sleeves, and, fastened by elastics, fly back at the approach of danger. Similar contrivances are tied by thin rubber bands to suspender straps, and, drawn down below the vest at will...