John Adams Quotes
The first thing to be done in Paris is always to send for a tailor, a perukemaker and a shoemaker, for this nation has established such a domination over fashion that neither clothes, wigs nor shoes made in any other place will do in Paris.
Adams had been in the position before. A perukemaker was a wig maker. Most men wore fancy wigs in public for formal occasions. All the ambassadors were expected to wear a wig to court with the exception of Benjamin Franklin who had his own identity as a major celebrity and could do anything he wanted and get away with it. He often wore a coon skin hat with tail from the American frontier while everyone else, including the king wore wigs. In the high English courts, wigs are still worn by the judges and attorneys.
John Adams, 1735-1826, 2nd President of the United States (Federalist, MA), Advice to Thomas Jefferson who had come to Paris to assume the role of the U. S. Ambassador, Quoted in John Hailman, Thomas Jefferson on Wine, 2006
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John Adams Jr. was an American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, and Founding Father who served as the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801. Before his presidency, he was a leader of the American Revolution that achieved independence from Great Britain, and he served as the first vice president of the United States. Adams was a dedicated diarist and regularly corresponded with many important figures in early American history, including his wife and adviser Abigail Adams and Thomas Jefferson.
