Show Corig baileys Ball yB dress congressman bailey of texas thus replies to recent criticisms of his big dress dreas 1 I have always held that society had bad DO tight right by its dictum to regulate the style of a mans clothes ever since I 1 could afford it I 1 have dressed just its as I 1 do today I 1 have worn the same blade black broadcloth buit cut in the same tyle ayle the same bamo stylo style of broad chirt front and a white tio tie tho the samo same kind of collar and broad black felt bat I 1 wear these clothes regard regardless lees of the day of the week or the hour or of socie tys dictation because I 1 believe they become rne me and they please my wife there is ig a rule of society which proscribes prescribes that a dress suit shall not bo be worn until after 6 in the evening if I 1 chose to wear a dress suit I 1 would feel tree free to put it on in the morning or evening or at noon doon just as tho the fancy dictated it seems to me that the society rule which attempts to regulate lato a mans dress is autocratic the rule prescribing dr dreda originated in the old customs of the court nobility wo we are simply imitating these old aristocrats when we bar a person out of society because he does not dress in the fashion if men showed more independence in the matter of dress they would soon be ablo able to break over tho the society restraints and after that anybody could wear whatever he chose to so eci long as he be conformed to the law of the land and wore something so far as I 1 am concerned I 1 shall continue dinue to wear whatever suits me and at the same fame time meets the approval of my wife |