Show THE ASIIIOXS fly JOSEPH tAXGKING TOWXSHEXD You may prate as you please about fashions And the sin of the dress you revile But ere you condemn what were wearing Please point to a comelier style Our suits were designed by an artist And each has its practical use And ere the designs are abandoned Give reasons instead of abuse Each age of the world has its fashions Depicted 01 historys page And choose what you will for your raiment Sometime it has been all the rage Should we choose the green fig leaves of Eden The fashion that Heaven began Im sure it would startle your morals Far more than the fashions of man The purpose of dress is ennobling When made in the beauty of art And those who wear beautiful raiment Must have some refinement of heart Even artisans plying the r labor And farmer when tilling the soil By proper regard for the fashions Hay comelier be at their toil I know that good taste is unfolding While onward the fashions itill move Those models of healthgiving raiment That wisdom must surely approve For now in good taste is permitted In every article worn A model of color and texture Best suited each form to adorn And he who would have every person Regardless of features or size Alike in their hoddengray garment With nothing to gladden the ej e i Is worthy a place in a cloister BjtDjOt in this glad world of ours Where God gives us patterns of beauty In the beautiful birds and the flowers So I question the faulttimling sermons Of wouldbe reformers in dreis Who love the old garments of homespun And every adornment suppress For surely that sister or brother Who all the new fashions deride Too oft in their selfesteemed plainness Are full of the folly of pride |