| Show women and mens mena clothes onida believes that instead of going into society women would ie better employed in applying their minds to dressing themselves their children and their men she says in the cosmopolitan mo 1 I do not think men would long resist a femin feminine lne effort on the part of women to introduce some better beetter male costume than that which at present makes the streets and the drawing rooms alike alik e hideous that is if the effort were general sustained and pers persuasive the trouser is the culminating point in modem male attire of ugliness indecency unsuitability and stupidity the chimney pot is the more ludicrous but I 1 think he ahe trouser is the more odious portion of masculine clothing it would make a guy of apollos self 91 it would be interesting ting to know what most men would say to the proposition that their wives design the clothes they should wear imagine the predicament of an ms aesthetic wife with a taste for mauve spike tails and a refractory husband with a horror of attracting notice tho the number of complications is too horrifying to contemplate ouida is quite right about the trouser but a mind built to dwell upon flounces and toques coques would it be entirely safe to trust such a mind with the grim problem of the trouser trouser tho baggy vest the stern stem silk hat it is doubtful best leave mans garments to the tailors and to the bicycle which is already doing a great work ja in exterminating tho the hated brou trou trouser phu phil adelphia times |
