


I looked to see if I could find any earlier mention of this trend, but the closest I found was in The Ladies’ Fancy Needle-Work Instructor (printed in 1841) which states that “ for sporting gentlemen the “Fox Head” is very pretty” but doesn’t go into any more detail than that. Pleasant, Mount Pleasant with kids: I chose this mostly because of its location so close to Charleston. Jawleyford’s ensemble was based on an already extant trend for blue fox head waistcoats, but there’s clearly some sort of connection. Ye Ole Fashioned Ice Cream & Sandwich Cafe- Mt. Now I can’t say for certain whether the waistcoats were inspired by the book or the description of Mr. On a bright blue ground he sported such an infinity of ‘heads’ that there is no saying he would have been safe in a kennel of un-entered or unsteady hounds.” Jawleyford’s coat went to ‘hare’, his waistcoat was all for the ‘fox’. Jawleyford is described in the book as “ a cross between a military man and a dandy, with a slight touch of the squire” and his hunting ensemble is described in minute detail including: “ But if Mr. Sponge’s Sporting Tour (first serialized in 1849 (at least that’s the earliest I could find) and published as a novel in 1853.) Jawleyford in popular sporting author Robert Smith Surtees’s book Mr. I was unable to locate the exact needlework pattern, but I think there’s a decent chance these waistcoats are inspired by the description of one worn by the character Mr. Okay, so I was curious and did a bit of digging and think I may have partially figured this out. I guess they must be from a pattern printed in a ladies’ magazine or something. Ye Ole Fashioned Ice Cream and Sandwich Shop.Family Owned & OperatedFrom Our World Famous BLT with 10 (yes 10) slices of bacon to our mouth-watering All-Beef. I can’t believe this terrible thing is an actual 1840′s embroidered waistcoat.
