Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-04-20
BRILLIANT HOSIERY.
The Fashion Club Declared War
Upon Them.
Some Of the Points Brought Out in Their
Discussions.

Oi""' tne members discussed the
question of hosiery
| After the president had called tho
meeting to order the following note
from fashion magazine was read:
| "A good rule to follow is never to
wear hosiery that will compel the gaze.
II by chance it becomes exposed to
view. With a woman it NAV be diff
ferent, but mans lower extremiti-s
| are seldom so pleasing to the eve that
he can afford to call attention to
them"
| The members We're inclined to re-
ceive the note with enthusiasm, except
that clause which announces that
| with a woman it may be different"
"Horrors." exclaimed the modest
man, would the villain who penne,l
that paragraph have the women ex-
hibiting their hosiery publicly? That
is. not unless the hose belong to a
! bicycle riding woman, and even then
they are more interesting when worn
by somebody else's sister than when
shown by ones own sister"
ITS a curious thing" remarked the
cynic that the average man watches
immodesty in women in whom he has
no interest, with a calm and judicial
eye. with no objection beyond critical
remarks that may be offered as to the
art value Of the presentation. but he
throws violent fits when his women
relatives give similar skirt dances
along the public ways This is credit
able to that much discussed individual
tip to the women who long to dress in
public, like variety stage favorites-
that they may make an impression on
some people, but the admiration they
win is but one grade removed from
insult"
Gentlemen. you will please come 10
| order" shouted the president. We
are gathered here to discuss the dress
of men and not the actions of women.
We will now return to the considera-
ton of the-ahem--the limbs of gen
tlemen.'
They are not, as rule, beautiful :
| begun the speaker of the evening. a
| shoe dealer. they do not ornament II
drawing room. They do not hold the
GREATNESS admiration of the beholder
when they are hung in air in the mad
| delirum even Of the dance--it is diff
ferent when the dance is done by
women.
THAT allusion to the women will cost
you-let me see, three. six, seven. eight
cigars" ruled the president.
The leg of the average man,
especially when thrust into the shoe
which. though excellent in its entirety,
is not beautiful in detail, is something
whose exhibition brings to the beholder
scheme of mans construction, the
beautiful was sometimes sacrificed for
the utilitarian.
when. therefore, a man seats HIM
self carefully hauls his trousers up 10
| avoid bagging at the knee-and it s
only a dream of bliss. for they bag
just the same-he exposes to the world
q segment of his anatomy, which is so
| unlovely that any covering of gay ana
| gorgeous hosiery which it may possess
only accentuates its lack of beauty. \
gay stocking on the limb of the or
binary citizen is like n beautiful violet
| hucd head dress on a yellow faced old
| lady-pardon the mention of the ladies.
When, therefore. q man insists on the
| undue exposure of his neither limbs, he
should be promptly demonstrated with
by all who hold him near and dear,
and even by those who know him only
slightly, but who respect the laws that
govern all the aesthetic creations of
the world"
The chair rules that to wear loud
stockings Will cost each one the price
of the articles, in prohibition Maine
water. The meeting stands adjourned
declared the president, and the deciara-
| ton was q wise one.