Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1888-10-06
pRess REFORM FOR MAN.
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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,
TO 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. A vast amount
of strength is used up by simply wearing
them. Starch Is misery on sultry day.
Your linen shirt Is a straight jacket; your
lightly buttoned vest and four button
cutaway are two more straight jackets
over that. You put on four thicknesses
Of cloth TO conform to tho demands OF
Broadway, when nature calls out but for
one, and q 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 put
on thin one.
You are unconsciously n slave to this
idiocy of custom. TO heighten this idiocy,
you put on the most clothing AND the
tightest fts and the most starch in the
CITY, where it is hottest When you go
TO the country, where II Is little cooler
and there Is more air to breathe and
more strength TO be got out Of such air
to help you endure your load OF tight lit
ting cloth, you put on less clothing and
looscr clothing. This is Inconsistent You
should wear your cumbersome starch and
tight fitting vestments where you have
the most strength TO wear them.
Your vest is a useless iucumbrance. II
il only the rudment Of the old fashioned
waist coat " That was coat. IT
reached 90 the hips ife years ago. People
then wore in Substance two coats-a back
coat and front coat, now the waistcoat.
Tho waistcoat has been gradually grow
ing shorter. In sack suit it Is Of no
earthly use save to increase your
load in hot weather aud make
you hotter. II is simply another
short coat, which you wear because
your tailor says you must. II S
ike wearing one hat inside the other
| You can't even wear it out, You know
| you wear ont out seven pairs of pants to
ono waistcoat. You know that now your
| closet Is full Of vests left over from worn
out suits that you don't know what to do
with. You cant make them over into
pantaloons. Iou cant set them for eel
| traps. Alone, they won't answer for
scarccrows. So millions Of yards of cloth
are wasted yearly In the making of vests.
| run uoNn YOUR vest I ull IL oh uiu
| leave IL of
IL Is great luxury to arise in the
morning and dress by three or four mo
tions In as many pieces, to stick your feet
into pair of slippers and be shod with
out the tcdiousncss Of lacing up or but
| tOning up your city boots. And foul
| pieces can be made as becoming and grace
ful--aye, and more so--than eleven pieces
| and four garments can hC changed
| oftcner and clcansCd oftcncr | be
love that dress should he neat, be
coming and as graceful as possible fol
every station or calling, and because 9
man lives where there Is no public ol
public opinion to look after him, is NJ
reason why he should live in rags or &C
with uncombcd hair. But the trouble IL
and you may see it proven every day IL
| the city in thousands and thousands o
cases, people haven't time nor means Il
wear their eleven pieces properly, and TO
that reason dtngy linen Is far more com
mon than that of snowy whitcneSs, ant
II clean collar and cuffs are not proof tha
they are tucked to n clean shirt, and tn
necktic in two cases out of three is a bas
and often urrlc0n subtcrfuge and imita
ton of softtet hing mtC-aded for an orna
ment, slurg on, stuck on, fired on an
way, only because custom says it must b
put on, and put on only to he endured
Dress reform for woman only? Man need
IL quite as much Rs she does.-Prcntic
milford in New York Star