First of all there was the business of getting married.

It was with an idea of permanency then, and the Knickerbocker wedding was, in consequence, a ceremony.

To it, the groom, his best-man, and the ushers went attired in blue coats, brass buttons, high white satin stocks, ruffled-bosomed shirts, figured satin waistcoats, silk stockings, and pumps.

The New Yorker's tailor, if his pretensions to fashion were well-founded, was Elmendorf, or Brundage, or Wheeler, or Tryon and Derby; his hatter, St.John, and his bootmakers, Kimball and Rogers.

For the wedding ceremony, the man's hair was tightly frizzed by Maniort, the leading hair-dresser of the day.