The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-12-06
Bows! Here's How You'll Look I!
By |. S. Grim
Illustrated by B. Cory Kilvert

stoyepe and hats These
ur nakedness and have interfesed with our daily
BUSINESS as little any garments could. We have
ested our eyes by changing the length OF the coat
nd the shape of the collar and by regulating the FULL
ess Of the trousers Sope of US, given to desire to
ghten the gloom of the universe, have introduced
oors and geometrical designs into the fabrics with
'hch tailors have clothed us. For some two
atsfed with the shape of these, garments. Like
r. Kiping's devil; they follow the murmur
hitch proclaims the passing of what we pleased to
al e Ct best Tssr snd THE
ave sought to compromise with these cavillings.
We have all seen the sign: "Artistc Pants Makers"
tut the movement for the aesthetic in mans dress
ever made any real advance below the shoulder
ladies' 1t did accomplish in spots certain abandoned
.cklessness as to the which male hair should
c allowed to grow unbarbered; it produced poetic
useless hs soft
saw Richard LeGallienne and Bliss Carman at
inner together oncebut let that co. this is serious
essay on the Significance Of Certain New
Styles in the Dress Of Small Boys, not
paper Recent Explorations in Tin
Plate Bohemia
The pictures tell the whole story.
Brothers, they have fanked us! For
years they have been suggesting this
modification and that, aided and
abetted fearsomely by the tailors
who would profit by the expanding
of the field of operations in mems
dress. We have laughed at
them; we have grunted scorn
at suggestions of ruffied shirt
bosoms and lace wrist bands
They came to and insinuated
that those mysterious "Best
People on the Other Side" were
going to wear velvet knicker-
bockers when they dressed for
the evening
eco back" said we, in our
naughty sef-confdence and I'M
guarded folly, "and tell 'em
that the Best People on This
!. Side are wearing roses in their
~ hair and carrying wrist bags on
$50 tennis courts! And now stop your
NSLCy nonsense and make me some dress
clothes just like those you made me last
year except l don't want 'em quite SO
tight around the waist"
II 1t is an old, old trick of those who are out
II numbered to resort to low and unworthy
strategems. From time immemorial men have
been moved to frenzied wrath by the sight of
mobs which push women and children before
from the missiles and wrath of Law and Might.
There is no place in this fight for women.
/ Woman was disqualified from the moment when
Eve'went saunterng through the garden look
But, gentlemen, see what they have done to
the children-to our poor little brothers!
There are no more helpless chips tossed on
the human seas than the children of the rich
By erich" / mean folks who ask prices out Of
curiosity and not with the minds eye on the
state Of the pocket book.
We said in our haste, "There is no place in
this fight for women" It is the women who
have betrayed our sex, gentlemen. They have
long longed that our dress should be expressed
in fancy. Now they have joined wits with the
enemy; they have turned over our little brothers
to the Psthetes.
Already the helpless Small Boy Of the Rich
has been fitted to his doom; it Is q doom that
will be ours unless we stand firm, nay, unless
we plan an aggressive defence. In Europe they
are making Toreador outfits for freeborn Amer
lean kids to wear; they are preparing to make
our nurseries into continuous masquerade
balls populated with small Napoleons and
George Washingtons and Turks; the villains
have even taken it on their craven souls to
a ;ch shouf b.