Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-05-02
Are Trousers TO Got

When il comes TO blind devotion to
fashion, men are far ahead of women.
Their costumes will not admit of such
diversified methods of expressing their
loyalty to the foolish fetch; but they
are all the stricter in their adherence to
what they consider the law.
Nothing infuriates n man so much as
for his wife to hint that his last winters
coat is quite good yet, if the style has
changed since he last wore it. And as
for collars and neckties, not one of the
stronger sex" would be caught with
neckwear line behind the fashion, if
the heavens were rolled up like scroll
as penalty for not wearing it. If it is
Ia mode to wear coats short, then the
man who makes any pretensions to being
well dressed would die, or sell out, or
lose bet or suffer any affection that
fate could bestow on him before he would
be caught in long coat. Neither lives
there man with soul so dead as to put
on hat that is out of date. He would
fail in business or 60 to Jail first; and he
would cheerfully be expelled from church
TO sustain the honor of his sleeve buttons
He would welcome either death or dis
honor, if it was his only means of escape
from fogyish attire.
Men ridicule women for their slavery
to fashion, when they are all the time
under far more hopeless sway from the
same despot. They are pursuing the
aesthetic dress craze with much greater
ardor than women, who have about
dropped it, A noted London archi-
tect, j. A. Gotch-may Heaven spare
him to the world many years, or until
he rings out the old and rings in The
new male attire-is now the
great authority on male garments
and his voice is for the abrogation of the
male outfit as it now stands. lie says
that the chimney-pot hat is positively
ugly, the swallow-tail inartistic, and the
artificial necktie an abomination. The
proper covering for the throat should be
tied in knot. He doesn't like the shirt,
either-considers it in the nature of a
sham, since it is only worn for the cuffs,
collar and front. Decidedly objection.
able, hence he would have the shirt
avaunt, and have q seaman's jersey take
its place, with cuffs and collar on the
outside.
Trousers? This London esthete loathes
tTOuScTS anu Woulu ldlll ulSlOSt VI tuciu
if he could persuade the other fellows to
do the same; for, be it known, men are
all quite as cowardly as women when it
comes to making decided stand against
the tyranny of fashion," They rail ut
women for not revolving individually
against the expressions of fiend fashion,
but with the exception of Oscar Wilde,
there isn't one among them outside of Il
circus who would depart from the Gus
tomary costume of the country could he
be saved by it. Even this London au-
thority detests trousers, says they are
only sieve for conveying dust to the
ankles, and that they wear out at the
knees, yet he wears them If the weak
est man on the face of the earth hears his
wife bemoaning the trouble she expert
ences with hustle, or wide skirt or
any of the garments which hold her in
excruciating thraldom, he looks at her in
calm contempt, and asks her in all Sc
robustness why in the world she wears
such things if they are uncomfortable.
When she tells him that she is obliged to
because every other woman does, the
contempt for her cowardice which is de-
picted in his face defies measurement.
Mr. Gotch gives his approval of the
hunting, cricketing, boating and bicycling
costumes, and pronounces them con-
venient and picturesque. Outside of
these he thinks the costume Of the male
citizen is hideous.-I Indianapolis RcvieU.