Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-01-11
DRESS REFORM FOB MAN.
The Simple Style at NIadequet-The Vest
an Incumbrance.

We can dress here In four pieces. to
witt shirt, pants, shoes aud hat. On
state occasions. socks. In town you are
commonly obliged to put on eleven pieces,
to wit: socks, shoes, drawers, pants,
shirs, 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 a sultry day.
Yonr linen shirt is straight jacket; your
lightly buttoned vest and four button
cutaway are two more straight jackets
over that You put on four thicllncsses
of cloth to conform to the demands of
Broadway, when nature calls out but for
one and a 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 slave to this
idiocy of custom. To heighten this idiocy,
you put on the most clothing and the
tightest fits and the most starch in the
city, where it is hottest When you &C
to the country, where it is a little cooler
and there is more air to breathe and
pIrer air to breathe, and consequently
more strength to be got out of such air
to help you endure your load of tight fit.
ting cloth, you put on less clothing and
looser 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 useless ncumbrance 1t
p only the rudiment of the old fashioned
waist coat" That was coat. 1t
reached to the hips $40 years ago. People
then wore i'll substance two coats-a back
coat and front coat. now the waistcoat.
The waistcoat has been gradually grow
ing shorter. In sack suit it is of nc
earthly use save to increase your
load in 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 the other
| You can't even wear it out. You know
| you wear out out seven pairs of pants tC
one waistcoat. You know that now YOU
closet is full of vests left over from worn
out suits that you don't know what to dc
with. You can't make them over int
pantaloons. You can't set them for &c
traps Alone, they won't answer fo
scarecrows. So millions of yards of clotl
are wasted yearly in the making of vests
Pull down your vest. Pull it off anC
| leave it off.
1t is great luxury to arise in til,
morning and dress by three or four mo
lions in as many pieces to stick your fee
into pair of slippers and be shod with
out the todiousness of lacing mp or but
toning up your city boots. And fou
pieces can be made as becoming and grace
ful-aye, and more so-than eleven pieces
and four garments can be change,
oftener and cleansed oftener | be
Lieve that dress should be neat, be
coming and as graceful as possible 10
every station or calling; and because
man lives where there is no public o
public opinion to look after him, is II
reason why he should live in rags or r
with uncombed hair. But the trouble is
and you may see it proven every day i
the city i'll thousands and thousands Q
cases, people haven't time nor means t
wear their eleven pieces properly. and 70
that reason dingy linen is far more com
mon than that of snowy whiteness, an
a clean collar and cuffs are not proof tina
they are tucked to a clean shirt, and tn
necltie in two cases out of three is q bas
and often unclean subterfuge and imita
ton of something intended for an orna
ment, slung on, stuck on, fred ON an
way, only because custom says it must b
put on, and put on only to be endured
Dress reform for woman only? Man need
it quite as much as she does.-PrentiC
Milford in New York Star.