Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1893 — Adherence to Old Fashions. [ARTICLE]

Adherence to Old Fashions.

Among the most uncomfortable artieles of masculine dress is the cylinder of sable which has been the proper head covering for a hundred years, despite its numerous disadvantages. Though intolerable in sunshine; so sensitive to raindrops that an umbrella njust be carried for its special shelter; inconvenient in traveling, it cannot be forgotten or neglected. This curious affair has not even a serious name. The tenaoity with which it clings to the scheme of costume is accounted for by the desire of short men to look tall, bv which, although they are no taller, they look taller. Jealousy of superior physical advantage has brought about many of the ugliest fashions. In woman’s dress this is noticeable; no sooner is there delight in a simple becoming fashion, than there Is oontrivea some mock deformity, and every woman of spirit hastens to adopt it. The most pleasing outlines of the figure are concealed by every ingenuity. It is vain for man to prepare unanswerable arguments against the fashions of tho day; they change before he can assail them, and one folly chases another from tho memory. It cannot be hoping too much that in the fullness of time the fastflying fashions will discard all tho ludicrous, hideous, and hurtful ones, and faultless modelfi be adopted.