We have seen that there was a great variety of colours in men's clothing. A little curiosity in colour must not pass unnoticed. The City Prentices, those upstart Beaus In short spruce Puffs and _Vigo_ coloured clothes.[202] --a colour which might puzzle for some time, were it not for the huge quantity of _snuff_ captured at Vigo in 1702. [Footnote 202: Epilogue to Mrs. Centlivre's _Love's Contrivance_, ed. 1703.] There were clothes of Drap du Barri and D'Oyley suits, so called after the famous haberdasher, whose name still survives in the dessert napkin. They were made of drugget and sagathay, camlet, but the majority of men wore cloth. It is scarcely necessary to describe the shape of the coat, for the illustrations show it better than any printed description. There is but one peculiarity I would point out--that in 1711 the coats used to be _wired_ to make them stick out. 'The Skirt of your fashionable Coats forms as large a Circumference as our Petticoats; as these are set out with Whalebone, so are those with Wire, to encrease and sustain the Bunch of Fold that hangs down on each side.'[203] [Footnote 203: _Spectator_, No. 145.] The cheap clothiers lived in Monmouth Street, St. Giles (now called Dudley Street), and there was no love lost between them and their higher-priced brethren, as the following advertisement shows: 'Whereas the Monmouth Street Men and other Taylors in and about the City, have by divers Advertisements in the Postman and other publick Prints, and by Bills given from Door to Door, boasted what mighty Pennyworths Persons may have of them, in selling Sagathy and Druggit Suits, the smallest sized Men for 3 Guineas, and the largest sizes for £3 10_s._ and Men's Cloth Suits at £4 and £4 10_s._ This is to acquaint all Persons that have occasion for such Suits, if they please to make Tryal, may have the same as Cheap in Birchin lane, and as well and as fashionable made, and may be assured of seeing more choice both of broad Cloaths, Camblet, Druggits and Sagathys than many of those Upstarts can pretend to.'[204] [Footnote 204: _Postman_, Nov. 15, 1707.]