Mr. Pepys’ Wardrobe
81st; Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and at noon home to dinner, where Creed came and dined with me, and after dinner he and I upstairs, and I showed him my velvet cloake and other things of clothes that I have lately bought, which he likes very well, and I took his opinion as to some things of clothes. Thence 'to the office where busy till • night, and then to prepare my monthly account, about which I staid till 10 . pt 11 o’clock at night, and to my great sorrow find myself L 43 worse than I was the last month. But it hath chiefly arisen from my layings—out in clothes for myself and wife; viz., for her about Ll2, and for myself L 55 or thereabouts; halving made myself a velvet cloake, two new cloth suits, black, plain both, a new shagg gowne, trimmed with gold buttons and twist, with a new hat, and silk tops for my legs, and many other things. I hope I shall not need now to lay out more money a great while; but I hope I shall with more comfort labour to get more, and with better successe than when for want of clothes I was forced to sneake like a beggar.
Diary (1660-69).
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Cue (NZERS), Issue 33, 15 October 1945, Page 20
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