Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1875-12-11
MOTIVES FOR DRESS.

MOTIVES FOR DRESS.
The primary motives for dress-pro-
lection and decency-havc become quite
secondary, and we doubt whether the
followers of fashion, at least of our time,
give much heed to the comfort or becom-
ingness oftheir habiliments. Simplicity,
indeed, and ease are nowadays charac-
teristic of the ordinary dress of civilized
man, who, as Carlyle has somewhere
said contents himself with series of
loose sacks, with which he clothes sue
cessively his body and limbs. He still,
however, on occasion, oppresses his
head with the stove-pipe hat, and cheats
his frame of its necessary covering with
those delusive substitutes, the gaping
waistcoat and scant swallow-tail His
loose everyday suit has certainly no
pretensions to elegance. That good
taste, however, which comes from fitness
of purpose may be justly claimed for it.
The black hat and dress-coat are not to
be justified on the score either of beauty
or propriety, and are senseless conces-
sions to the absurd exactions of fashion.
With these exceptions, the modern man,
viewed relatively to his tailor, may be
congratulated upon his progress. The
most inveterate praiser of by-gone times
will not deny, if he has coat to his
back, that his condition outwardly is an
improvement upon that of his predecess-
ors of not many years past. We need
dered hair rntf}es iaced COATS and
ell hraachas of h,nJ,.od ysars 900
We baHo n,,1,, - ronoam,hor tba ooiie,rs
ond stool-s ~. " olona'Ia of onE, fa,.tn
u ,.no,s S'E IN, iI - - IL, oy 10y 10y
Iimh IN thosa dors ~ ro, LEI, % I neai.
s,;ifannd nn oil s;d.s III iii, 1aat,,ar oS ooS
bair Cloth he M noniI ILL not %'d do ~ otharu;sa la
Thinl % for . ~ moment % how how nv much % he had had
to nov FOO fn, h;s s,,noo,ofnrtahla ,,,.;,,,
ieaei A. A coat M o,,ilor all ] .snoh v an p lalah-
or,te niece of wortmansb;n .hat ,more
d,vs % Of % noannal Labor wera snant mo mon n
# ib,n are now Given. to whole suits of
nlothas and th ost ~, q ,,,.a,,,r.t;o,,otoI,,
lar~a Go,+a,nnor.r,, no. !p;t,. tb;s syors
other eonai absnriit;es Of dress the
only motive for the existence of which
was seemingly the tronhle in max mo
them and the CONSEQUENT expense to the
wearer.. The dressing man has certainly
been of late progressive one.
It is to be feared that woman has not
fully kent mace with man in his indic;ous
reform, nf costnme d,,,ino tho last few
wears She ia certainly sot averse to
CHANGE for she SO offen modifies her
style Of dress that she is hardly discern
able as the same woman for two months
together She however tbrouohont
,.oSs,,a;ns o,,a+o,+ ~ 49, I'D basha,.;o
nrnain1os .oant nf cnst W on and @ hn,ds - hi,s
IF fs,ther na;nt hr;1t,t1coinred ] stnffs
and ;inai;nc tr;nIets With ali the H tan citv
Of an TnJ;,S nuaan '''o 'o'','0
To attract Notice soems tho motive in
tbe first instance Of female Costume q
Hanoo.;ts br;IIi.,,ov of t;,t 10 ox,a y.
s;Sanoss ;,s IaanG folds ;ts fnl,nass .,
contour and tic i,nw;n% sween w Tins
| GIlino, tho oyo ond 6v;ns tho attont;on
tho next n,;rnosa con1as into riay"tbai
Of % disnl,y;np % o1u onai;tv % and nd cosfl;ness cost esq
Womep wbo ,ra sa;5 to jress move fo,
oooh othor t,., Co... tho mol. COZ, a,e
on III III .IIan. ~, ' ne 1o IL" ~, :.
especlaiiy opserv.snt VI Ine hisaterll
worn, anu es!lmatihS us price, appIe,
ol'tIe ~ .ceolu.nSy. u snsil eyee Una
Moill''l Is apt W De reggarueo as thg pes'
ulesseu ..a who IS tne inost eAPens,.ely 80
rour,niIns VI eie cost oi Cne iasniohapit i
lemaie costume are expended ior "na
nay Ge reSarueo as Moss-eSse"tsosS, -
Gney uo hot cohtripuCe IN M Tue least u
eecoio.lsness ee ne S. OF coinlole. Inc escessiv.
neeness ~ VI .ue nia.eriai' 1ne ptoiuse use
ol IL III puiilng tne numerous ana ex
/ tenslVe outWorkS OF the 1asnsonapit
woman 4ress. me aDuhaancsss ACE