Show men once carri carried ed muffs though we are told that muffs are to be worn again by women it Is highly unlikely that any of the once sterner sex will follow their example yet up to the close of the eighteenth century it was common for the well dressed man to sport a muff suspended round his neck by a ribbon horace walpole writing to george montagu in december 1765 1763 says 1 I send you a decent smallish muff bufe that you may put in your pocket and it cost but 14 shillings took his cifes old muff into use and let her buy a new one but then was capable of ed edging his waistcoat with gold braid taken from his cifes best petticoat that she had when I 1 married her manchester guardian |