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S.W.Fores No. 22, for Decency, Propriety & Self, 5 Sous, 21 August 1818, promising to pay ‘the Misses Scantdress & Littlecloaths or Bearer, when our Dashing Ladies shall have acquired more Delicacy and our Fops more Brains’, signed Common Sense and Rectitude, with a vignette showing five young ladies in pretty dresses, with the caption ‘Naked we came into the World, Almost Naked we live in the World, Naked we shall go out of the World, Cover yourself, lest Shame cover you, extremely fine £100-£150

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Sir David Kirch Collection of Skit Notes.

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This note is clearly a comment on the perceived indecency of imported French fashions. Depending on who you ask, it remains relevant to this day!