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Show WHEN TROUSERS WERE DECRIED On Their First Appearance Many Considered Con-sidered Them Indecorous. It Is hard to think back to the days when men did not wear trousers such as now encase the limbs of all the masculines one meets. Harder still to believe that these garments were by many considered Immoral on their first appearance, and that one ot tho most numerous of all religious denominations denomina-tions for a long while forbade Its ministers min-isters appearing in tho pulpit clothed In apparel so frivolous. It is a fact that trousers, Introduced by the duko o: Wellington, came In slowly and were for a long time looked upon as a light-minded departure from the serious and conventional in men's dress. And now, should any sober-minded gentleman venture to lay these ubiquitous ubi-quitous and ugly garments aside, and prance down the street clad in tho brief knee-breeches and hoso of his progenitors, ho would no doubt incur the accusation of being an ludecorous trifler. So much has custom to do with our sartorial morals! |