In Braddock's campaign the young surveyor and frontier soldier had been thrown among a party of dashing, handsomely equipped officers fresh from London, and their appearance had engaged his careful attention.

Washington was a thoroughly simple man in all ways, but he was also a man of taste and a lover of military discipline.

He had a keen sense of appropriateness, a valuable faculty which stood him in good stead in grave as well as trivial matters all through his career, and which in his youth came out most strongly in the matter of manners and personal appearance.

He was a handsome man, and liked to be well dressed and to have everything about himself or his servants of the best.

Yet he was not a mere imitator of fashions or devoted to fine clothes.