A “blue striped shirt,” an “old gray overcoat;” an “old broad-brim straw” hat, “easy shoes,” “An umbrella and a fan.”

 

          Moncure Daniel Conway, From Autobiography, Memories and Experiences, 2 vols. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1904), 1:215-216, in Myerson 192; “old gray overcoat:” SD in LOA 881; “old broad-brim straw:” SD in LOA 807, “easy shoes:” SD in LOA 807, “An umbrella and a fan:” SD in LOA 734. Edward. Haviland Miller in Walt Whitman’s ‘Song of Myself’: A Mosaic (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1989), p. xi, assumes the hat in the 1855 frontispiece picture is made of straw.