The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-10-12
DRESS REFORM FOR MAN.
The Simple style at Madcquct~rhe Sess
an Incumbrance.


an Incumbrance.
We can dress here In four pieces. to
wit: shirt, pants, shoes and hat. On
state occasions, socks. In town YOU arc
commonly obliged to put on eleven pieces,
10 wit socks, shoes. drawers, pants,
shirt. undershirt, cravat, collar, vest
coat and hat A vast amount Of time
and force is used up by myriads Of civil
lied beings in putting on these eleven
pieces. In hot weather. vast amount
Of strength is used up by simply wearing
them. Starch IS misery on sultry day
Your linen shirt is straight jacket; your
lightly buttoned vest and four button
cutaway are two moro strufght jackets
over that You put on four thickncsses
of cloth TO conform to the demands OF
Broadway, when nature calls out but for
one. and thin and very loose one at
that When you have anything TO do. or
YOU get to your Office you shuck your
coat and sit in your shirt sleeves. or pnt
on a thin one.
You are unconsciously slave to this
idiocy Of custom. To heighien this idiocy,
YOU put on the most clothing and the
highest fits and the most starch in tho
city. where il Is hottest. When you go
10 the country, where 1t is little cooler
and there is more air TO breathe and
purer air 10 breathe, and consequently
more strength TO be got ont OF such air
TO help YOU endure your load Of tight MT
ting cloth. Won put on less clothing and
looser clothing. This is inconsistent. You
should wear your cumbersome starch and
tight fitting yestments where YOU have
the most strength to wear them.
Your vest Is a useless incumbrance. IL
is only the rudiment of the old fashioned
waist coat That was coat. 1t
reached to the hips 140 years ago People
then wore in substance two eoats-a back
coat and "A front coat, now the waistcoat-
The waistcoat has been gradually grow
| ing shorter In a sack suit II Is of no.
earthly use save to increase yonr
load I'm hot weather and make
YOU hotter. 1t is simply another
short coat, which you wear because
your tailor says you must It's
like wearing one hat inside tho other.
You can even wear il out. You know
YOU wear out out seven pairs Of pants to
one waistcoat. You know that now your
closet is full If vests left over from worn
ont suits thai YOU don't know what to do
with You ,ant make them over into
pantaloOns. You can't set them for eel
traps Alone. they won't answer for
scarecrows. So millions Of yards of cloth
arc wasted yearly in the making OF vests.
Pull down your vest. Pull II on and
leave il off
II is n great luxury TO arise in the
morning and dress by three or four mo
tions in as many pieces. to stick your ieot
into pair OF slippers and be shod with
ont the tediousness of lacing up or but
toning up your city boots. And four
pieces can DO made Is becoming and grace
! ful-cvc. and moro sO--tlan eleven pieces.
and four garments can be changed
oftouer and clcansed oftener. | be-
| licvc that dress should be neat. be-
coming and as graceful as possible for
every station or calling. aud because q
man lives where there is no public or
public opinion 10 look after him, Is no
reason why he should live in rags or 20
with uncomocd hair. But the trouble IS,
and You may see 10 proven every day IN
| the city I'm thousands and thousands or
cases. people haven't time nor means TO
wear thcir eleven ieces properly and ior
| that reason dingy linen is far moro com
mon than that Of snowy whiteness, and
a clean collier and cuffs are not proof that
they are tucked 20 a clean shirt end tho
necl,tic In two cases out Of three is base
and often unclean snbterfuge and imita-
ton Of something intended for an orna-
meat. slung Oh. stuck on. fired on any
/ way, only because custom says II must DO
put on. and pat on only 70 be endured.
| Dress reform for woman only! Man needs
il quito as much as she does. Prentice
| Milford in New York Star.