Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1881 — Masculine Dress. [ARTICLE]

Masculine Dress.

Our adoption of British fashions is as uncomfortable as it is silly. Americans should dress in the French fashion, as the climate of the two countries more closely approximates. Furthermore, we are more like the French in physique, manners and tastes. But, outside of New York, a man dressed in the French style, loose trousers, gay-colored gaiters, flowing necktie and loose cuffs, is something of an exhibition that all classes of promcnaders, from grave to gay, take tlie utmost latitude in staring out of

countenance and saluting with comments, from lively to severe. The Parisian charm of Parisian promenades is the perfect catholicity of taste displayed. The Parisian claims the right of emphasizing his individuality in dress, and he admits the same right in others. You shall see sauntering along the broad walks the costumes of all nations—but no man stares, even should the turbaned Turk, the gaberdined Israelite or the winged gowns of the Orientals pass in the procession.