The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-08-08 00:00:00

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e, to be a matter of trivial value to those who know
miseries of a crambling gait, a cramped shoe, and
ler foot. Those who have suffered from these penal-
will heed our humble suggestions : they who are

well need not ph

39. There is anew patent shoe come out lately, which
professes to have a double recommendation, viz.,—that
of impenetrability to damp, and of a power of absorbing
the moisture within the shoe, by means of a preparation
of horse hair placed between the soles of the shoe. They
are called the Inipilia Shoe and Boot. They may be
worth a trial—though we don't credit every new puffed
article. We have not tried them ourselves, yet, but will

LLV.
40. We should say that two pair of easy, light-made
buckle shoes, for bright weather, would be sufficient, with
a pair of pumps, to put on in the evening. One of these
latter will go snugly into a side pocket of your coat, with
a sock turned inside out around it.

CHAPTER IV

ACCOUTREMENTS CONTINUED

-CAP A PIED

Coat, Pantaloons, Knapsack, Hat, Stick, and Gloves,

41. Most men are accustomed to wear a frock coat,
and beyond all question it is the neatest and hest style of
coat, and therefore, though we shall take occasion to sug-
gest another kind as presenting on the whole more advan-
tages for the traveller, yet we do not mean to say any-
thing against the frock coat as such. Colonel Shaw re-
commends it : " For a coat nothing is so good as a sur-
tout, made of the finest cloth ; it should button up close
to the neck to avoid cold." This requires, however,
from its limited accommodation in the pocket way, the
use of a knapsack for stowing away your linen and gene-
ral travelling baggage in case you are going to exceed
a couple or three days. What we are going to recom-
mend will carry three days change, &c., without encum-
bering you in your tour. We mean the adoption of a
42. Velveteen Shooting Jacket as being capitally
suited for walking in—fine or wet, windy or frosty.
There are many kinds of material now introduced, such
as the plaids and similar manufactures, any of which
will keep you warm enough in winter, or in summer as
cool as can he accomplished consistently with anything
like provision against showers of rain, and windy wea-
ther. The velveteen is the most durable for wear—
there is no end in fact to such a jacket—the colour va-
ries—the lighter colours have the advantage of freedom
from smell—which particularly when wet the black dye
is always irremovably subject to. On the whole we are
inclined to think the plaided jackets the best, all reasons
considered. You don't get so soon chilled by wind or wet
in this woollen as you do in the cotton (velveteen) mix-
ture. This remark of course does not apply to any such
luxurious dress, as velvet itself which is silk, and no
doubt unexceptionable save on the score of expense—to
which some don't hesitate to go. It would be foreign to
the direct object of this little t:eatise were we to digress
into the various scientific reasons for every suggestion.
Most of readers know that the fact of an article being a
conductor or non-conductor of caloric and electricity regu-
lates the choice of its use in the variations of climate—
the object being generally to keep in the animal heat by
winter's clothing, and to keep out the heat which is ex-
ternal to the body in summer : the body neither relishing
an external absence of heat, (cold) which deprives it too
rapidly of its own by conducting away its caloric—nor an
external presence of heat, which is so great as to equal,
or ever so little exceed the temperature of its own blood
—that heat being oppressive to people in general which
approaches blood heat. Woollen garments fulfil the
greatest number of these desiderata for the body's self
defence. They do not chill the body, though they may
Lecome moist—they retain air in their interstices, and
do not condense moisture. _ _

43. Waterproof dresses have called forth considerable I
attention latterly, from the elaborate eulogies of various
interested patentees, and their frequently-trumped up
authentications as to their waterproof qualities. We
do not mean to deny that such may be more or less the
case, but we do assert that a great oversight has occurred
on the part of bath patentees, experimenters and the
public, regarding the point, or points rather, to be kept
in view. It is just because these articles, as Indian rub-
ber, oil, silk, chemically-prepared cloth, &c., are ren-
dered impermeable that they are on this very account in-
jurious in their use to the health of the body. We must
explain this, by going on to state, that the impermeabi-
lity to external wet is not at all required in a dress, but
also a transpirability of insensible perspiration from
within, which requires to be kept in view—both which
conditions it will probably never be practicable to accom-
plish thoroughly, as the article must acquire the nature
of a (safety) valve, permitting escape of vapour from

within—refusing the entrance of water from without,

any one has possession of such an inestimable coat, let
him enjoy it; until he does get such, let him take our

word for it, that mere waterpr- mfgarments are prejudi-
cial for any length of wear ; they may do for a short
time, as during a passing shower, but not for a long walk
in a settled rain—the perspiration freely generated,
though in an insensible form in its nascent state, under
strong exercise, is retained by the waterproof clothing,
and being thereupon condensed, not only actually com-

municates a chill to the body', from the water so con-
densed inside the waterproof•, but moreover presents a
source of danger to the constitution, from the fact of this
condensed perspiration being a real and energetic virus,
the poisonous nature of which, in developing the worst
types of fever, has long been known to the medical pro
fession as so subtle an agent that, though refractory as yet
to the tests of the chemist, it is yet so active as to be de-

tected by our nervous system in the short space of a few•

hours—whose precursory monitions of alarm at the self-
born foe most readers may have had more or less occasion
to observe, in their own personal experience of headache,
languor, faintness, &c. after a close-fastened waterproof
coat or &oak—compared with the evil results of which a
simple good wetting from the penetrating rain would be

an evil almost to-be dignified with the name of good!
We have, after all, digressed perhaps a little : but it
may be of service to have given this explanation for
those readers who have not access to other medical dis-
cussions of the subject. The remark has a general bear-
ing on the question of dress, and the reader can apply it
in many ways if he will take the trouble. It is for this
' very reason that under garments especially should be
changed frequently, and washed, even if a few days they
may not appear sullied at all—viz, on account of retained