The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-10-29
THE BULLETIN.
Published every merning, Monday exc
cepted.
OUR UNFASHIONABLES.

| bhAbbt mkN-hN In DVpI IN VIM
| ERAL, AND NOBODY IN PARTICULAR.
In the beginning, we beg pardon Of our
male and female readers. We know the
subject we have concluded to say a word
or two about is q touchy enc.
The fact 10, fair reader, who are now
handling this sheet with your dainty
hands and taking in these words with
bright eyes, we don't mean you in what
we say about female dress in this city
it is your next door neighbor, or perhaps
she lives q street or two away from you.
You always dress with most exquisite taste
and look charming in the very latest fash.
ion. Neither do we mean you, dear sir,
who are now plunging into this article
headlong. We mean the gentleman who
does business . square or two away from
you, and whom you know, you have often
remarked, IS little sloucby and careless in
the matter of dress.
We have been away from home several
times in our life, once or twice ~ far as the
grea: metropolis-we read some, and from
reading and observation we have reluct.
antly come to the conclusion that Cairo
isn't fashionable city by a long shot
When YOU go to church mot to your
church, reader, but to one of the other
ones) on the holy Sabbath and with
thoughts firmly fixed on heavenly things,
glance over tho congregation, what do you
see7 We see hats of as many different
shapes as Joseph's coat WAS Of colors-high
crowns, low crowns, pointed crowns, fiat
crowns, broad rims, narrow rims, and soma
with no rims at all. We see wraps Of
| every fashion since the food--the last
flood in Cairo, We mean Sacks, long and
short, circulars big and little, jackets tight
and jackets loose, made of every sort of
material and in all the colors of the rain
bow. The fashionable short dress of 9TH
or cities is worn in Cairo we are glad to
say, by everybody. As for shoes, the last
article of female dress we intend to notice
to-day, candor compels us to say, more in
sorrow than in anger, that some of our
ladies do wear the most outrsgeously ugly
boots ever turned off the last by the disc-
Piles Of st. Crispin. Some of our ladies
have largo feet-the fact can't b denied,
and these are the ones who piH decorate
their boots with enormous bows and inn
mense buckles, thus making q show Of
what they should endeAvor to hide Why
not go TO Elliott Il Haythorne's and buy q
pair of those exquisite velvet-toppsd b~ots,
which, if they fit, will make any female
foot presentable? or 10 our friend Black,
Of the city shoe store, who has Inc COL
lection Of ladies shoes of the very latest
styles.
As TO the men of Cairo, they are worse
than the SITTER sex. We have had our
soul vexed within US by seeing the way
most men apparel themselves. In n group
Of half dozen men you will see half-a.
dozen styles Of coats, pants, and hats.
One, perhaps, whose short-tsiled coat is
very nearly in the fashion, will have on a
pair of pantaloons which, if they were
gathered in at the bottom, might be mis-
taken for suit of the original boomers.
Another, whose unmentionables are SC
fashionably tight that walking appears t.
: be an uncomfortable exercise will wear
a coat whose long waist and longer tai
are unmistskable evidences that the gar
ment sprang into existence about tn,
R beginning Of the rebellion. A third
with both long-tsiled coat ami wide panta
looms might have served the puspose @
dummy in a fashionable tailors sho
Twenty years ago. As for hats, We god
and little fishes there are not two hat
IN Cairo alike. You, my dear sir, are tn
' only man In this city whose hat is in tn
fashion.
But what we intended to say Ia the b.
ginning was this Why can't you, fai
and gentle reader, induce your friends I
Dress like you do-,o wear a dress wit
iumes and things on the skirt, a pole.on
= these to match and to set the whole ri
on turbulent hat of the latest fashion
anu why can't you, sir, get your neirl
oors and friends to follow YOUR we,
"o"h good taste in the matter of ha,
. soA" and pants Having done our dut,
We TOOK for a revolution in this r.,ro
shortly. !" 'h's fe'pe