Kings man

a handkerchief with yellow patterns upon a green ground, the favourite coloured neckerchief of the costermongers. The women sometimes wear KINGS MAN kerchiefs thrown over their shoulders. A coster will often imagine his caste, or position, is at stake, if his KINGS MAN is not of the most approved pattern. When he fights, his KINGS MAN is tied around his waist as a belt. This partiality for a peculiar-coloured neckcloth is part of the fondne for gaudy colours which at all times and in all countries has been shown by the uncultivated. A strange similarity of taste for certain colours exists amongst the Hindoos, Gipsies, and London lower cla es. Red and yellow (or orange) are the great favourites, and in these hues the Hindoo selects his turban and his robe; the gipsy his breeches, and his wife her shawl or gown; and the costermonger, his plush waistcoat and favourite KINGS MAN . Among either cla , when a fight takes place, the greatest regard is paid to the favourite coloured article of dre . The Hindoo lays aside his turban, the gipsy folds up his fancy breeches or coat, whilst the pugilistic costermonger of Covent Garden or Billingsgate removes his favourite neckerchief to a part of his body, by the rules of the “ring,” comparatively out of danger.