Show I ABSURDITIES OF MENS GARB Knee breeches are coming into use in Boston eaid a fashionable Blank street tailor to a Boston Herald man manFor every day wear No not yet but will come soon enough I mean for evening parties I am making a pair of knee breeches for a young man to wear out evenings even-ings when he goes in full dress Bevn eral of our toniest young men are wearing them at dinners and at parties In New York a number of young men moving in the best circles cir-cles have resolved to wear knee breeches with full dress One result of Oscar Wildes example ex-ample and preaching I suppose ventured the inquiring newspaperman newspaper-man 0 no Wilde didnt start it Havent you heard of Gotch Dont you know that Gotch says that men are comfortably and conveniently dressed but that beauty is conspicuously conspicu-ously absent in their attire It appears that his rival of Oscar has put his idea regarding mens dress into print Trowaera are note not-e inasmuch aa they get baggy at tbe knee long before they are worn out and they are always getting dirty at tbe ankles They are not specially adapted either for cold or for wet On a wet day it f e from the knee downward tba t catches the rain and necessitate the changing of the whole garment indeed it is the way in which the y ignore the knee joint that lenders trqwseru objectionable e It is at this joint they drag and no t only spoil their own shape but inflict in-flict a sense of tightness over th e whole body by means of tbe brace Why are buttons placed on tb 9 back of a coat Mr Qotoh remarks that tbe tailors say that they are put there to mark the waist But why should the waist be marked As a matter of fact the only reason for the existence of these two buttons is that they are a survival from the time when they were of use when men buttoned back the long flaps of their coats in order to walk more freely or found them useful in sus taming the sword belt We have no flap now we wear no swords now then why keep the buttons Another rudimentary organ may be found at he sleeve There is always a cuff marked generally by a double row of stitches which performs no useful erviceunless it be to remind us that our grandfathers had facings to the levees and the little buttons which appear at the end were of real use when the sleeve was tight at the wrist Another inevitable feature of tbe coatis coat-is the collar In olden times this collar was of some service it was large and turned up well in inclement weather in order to allow Of its buttoning around the neck a nick was neces liMY But though we hardly ever think of turning up an ordinary coat collar and find it of little use if we do so we still preserve both it and he nick as survjvdls The storepipe hat too is only the carcase on which our ancestors were wont lo display ribbons and knots and other guads Tn itself it is both ugly and uncomfortable uncom-fortable Then we wear absurd neckties that do not tieand pins that do not pin |