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A reenactment of George Washington's 1789 inauguration features the white wigs and gentlemanly formality the President admired. Long suit coats to the knee for the men and full skirts of sumptuous fabrication for the women are British influences the young republic had not yet rid itself of. Eighteenth-century knickers wouldn't look this groovy again until Sly and the Family Stone donned them in the 1970s!